Menstrual Monday 11/16/09
Welcome to this week's installment of menstrual news, art, activism, and more! Today is another light flow day for us here at GladRags HQ.
- Afri-pads, a nonprofit providing Ugandan school girls with reusable menstrual kits, is listed on the philanthropist site GiveMeaning.com
- The long awaited Flow: The Cultural History of Menstruation (pictured) goes on sale!
- The Frisky shares with us 10 Outrageous Menstrual Facts That'll Freak You Out from Flow the book-- history is weird!
- Another Flow related link: How to Sell a Tampon is an interesting slide show documenting the vague and often shaming history of feminine product advertising from Double X
- Why Men Should Learn to Like Period Sex an opinion piece on Jezebel in the vein of women being humans and not just objects! Woo!