atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... red-wrapped "gift" on white-outfitted women stepping off planes in vacation spots.Guardian writer Kira Cochrane detailed many of the current efforts by women to bring their cycles out from deep, dark, taboo territory into the open, so there will no longer be shame in discussing everything and anything from PMS to the environmental implications of all those menstrual products in landfill...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... need a concerted effort to address it? In an article published in the Guardian on Friday , writer Kira Cochrane situates "My Little Red Book" at the center of a new wave, as it were, of "menstrual activism." (The movement is also called "radical menstruation," "menstrual anarchy" or "menarchy.") The term, she writes, "is used...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
... see—tampons, blood, all that.", Berthon-Moine is only one out of many modern period activists. Kira Cochrane also cites Cella Quint, the creator of a zine titled "Adventures in Menstruating," Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, author of , and former for her disgustingly illuminating narrative about exactly what happens to a tampon stuck inside a body for 10 days. It seems like periods are suddenly...
