With free-bleeding demonstrations and menstrual blood art making headlines, a controversial and relatively unknown menstrual practice is on the rise. Menstrual extraction is making a comeback, and it is high time we all started talking about it.
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A period-tracking startup is poised to take over the intersection of women’s health and technology. Natural Cycles claims it can help women trash their hormonal birth control, or conceive, depending on their needs.
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THIS PAST SEPTEMBER 1ST, the Bushtember Foundation and NFCC International launched their women’s health campaign called “Let’s Face It. Period.” Using a blend of education,…
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Research unrelated to child marriage has shown that having books in the home increases children’s academic performance, regardless of their country’s state of development or ideology. This means girls with access to books at home have better chances of being accepted into higher education programs, giving them many more opportunities for self-sufficiency and real choices about whom and when they marry.
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IT’S NO SECRET that hormone levels in a woman’s body are often fluctuating at any given time (and that a woman’s body was designed to…
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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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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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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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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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WHEN DID YOU get your period? It might seem like young girls are starting to leave childhood behind earlier than ever, but in actual fact…
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ANDY GONZALES AND SOPHIE HOUSER are New York City high school students who met through the organization Girls Who Code, whose aim is to “close the…
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