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!