The 13th-20th October 2018, is an ‘Environmenstrual week of action‘, as part of WEN’s (Women’s Environmental Network) campaign to make healthy and eco-friendly menstrual products affordable and available to all in
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Top 10 Menstruation Myths!
I have spent the past six years researching menstrual cycle-related health. The most striking aspect for me is how the menstruation taboo persists, despite all the progress made in global
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The ‘virginity’ myth…
Image: 'Virgo' in Urania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c.1825 This week we tackle another reproductive health myth, and perhaps the most dangerous one of all...
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I’m so over the moon… myth (Part 2)
Image: ‘Die Mondfee’ -‘The Moon Fairy’- by Hermann Kaulbach The last post outlined two common menstrual myths… One about the moon having an influence over the menstrual cycle, another about
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I’m so over the moon… myth (Part 1)
Image: ‘Die Mondfee’ -‘The Moon Fairy’- by Hermann Kaulbach (Wiki-commons) Building on last month’s blog about the way in which PMS is often (wrongly) presented as something affecting ‘all women’,
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