Menstrual Monday 12/21/09
Welcome to the second to last Menstrual Monday of the year and the first official day of winter! Enjoy this week's dose of menstruation facts, art, news, and more!
- From Halle Tecco at the Huffington Post, an article about menstrual products in Africa entitled "When Menstruation Means Inequality"
- We found this intro to menstrual cup use through MyFrugalTips on Twitter: Using a menstrual cup instead of tampons: be eco-friendly while saving money
- Did you know that a recent female climber of Mt. Everest brought the DivaCup with her to prevent having to bury or carry out disposables products? Cool! We learned this neat fact from Carlin Ross' interview with the women behind the DivaCup.
- The Society for Menstrual Cycle Research has put out a call for creative works! They're looking for poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and menstrual memoirs for a special issue of their interdisciplinary journal, slated for publication ne
xt fall.
- Check out this fascinating article about menstruation in ancient civilizations, snake goddesses, and the "Isis knot" -- an early form of tampons used by women suffering from irregular menstruation and to prevent miscarriages!
- Strange but true: you can now (for quite a price!) harvest your own stem cells from your menstrual blood to save for "the future [when] these cells may be the basis of medical treatments for threatening diseases, personalized cosmeceuticals and regenerative medical procedures." The Society for Menstrual Cycle Research has more info -- plus a funny video courtesy of In Living Color.
- An Ad a Day shares amusing advertisements for "sanitary napkins" as part of its Vintage Friday series. Aren't you glad we don't have to figure out those belts anymore?
- Artist Amy E Fraser has a series of abstract paintings based on the "inner turmoil of the uterus." Strange, beautiful, and interesting!