IF HEADLINES ARE ANYTHING TO GO BY, an increasing number of women are rejecting hormonal contraceptives for the sympto-thermal method of fertility awareness. According to…
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I’VE ALREADY TALKED about how problematic reality network Bravo’s Shahs of Sunset can be, with its one-dimensional representation of the Los Angeles Iranian-American community as…
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IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, periods have gone public. Menstruation activism has been pushed up to the top of the feminist agenda, with women in…
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JENNIFER ALDORETTA, a trained engineer, created the Groove app when she realized that that she could combine her experience with side effects on the Pill with her…
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MOODY BITCHES, a groundbreaking book by psychiatrist Dr. Julie Holland that calls for society to reconsider how it views female “moodiness,” has whipped up controversy in…
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IN A RECENT EPISODE of Real Time with Bill Maher — one that I could actually sit through without yelling and muttering to myself —…
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I DON’T THINK I started having the self-perception and body image issues that have been plaguing me most of my life until the eighth grade,…
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LAZY PEOPLE, rejoice. Despite all the facts that point towards exercise being the best thing ever, a new study is suggesting that, like all good…
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If you think that “periods” and “pole-dancing” are two phrases that should never be uttered in the same sentence, Dana Michelle Gillespie is here to…
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LARA BRIDEN is a Naturopathic Doctor (ND) practicing in Sydney. If you’ve never heard of naturopathic medicine, it’s an approach to healthcare that “uses holistic and nontoxic…
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WHAT DO YOU GET when you cross environmentally-friendly transport with environmentally-friend menstrual care? Sustainable Cycles — a collective of “spokeswomen” (nice pun) who undertake cross-country…
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SORRY Kardashian Klan, but the future of weight-loss pills has arrived, and it ain’t called Quick Trim. Gone are the days of relying on stimulant…
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