Book review: Seeing Red
Women’s health expert Kirsten Karchmer has written Seeing Red, a book about how to fix menstrual suffering by making changes in your nutrition, lifestyle and mindset. (…)
Women’s health expert Kirsten Karchmer has written Seeing Red, a book about how to fix menstrual suffering by making changes in your nutrition, lifestyle and mindset. (…)
‘How can you stop something that is so flowing. That feels so real?’ We proudly present a breathtaking and striking period poem by Dutch Christel Janssen, about passing on period shame. Generation after generation. (…)
Canadian author Holly Bridges wrote ‘Flow fighter: How I kicked my fibroids & heavy periods to the curb’. A must-read for everyone suffering from heavy menstrual bleeding problems. (…)
‘Femtech and social media shatter menstruation taboos. However, female novelists have been fighting the corner for period sex for much longer.’ – A guest blog by Hilary Webb.
In 19th century literature, women never menstruate. However, Eline Vere, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina do regularly feel ‘a bit weak’.
From a comic book for both girls and boys to colourful pads and liners stickers for a doll: five fun initiatives that teach girls about menstruation. (…)
Photographer Charlotte Luijendijk was inspired by the many euphemisms for the word ‘menstruation’.