Menstrual Poetry

The Good, The Bad and The Burning

Warning: This post is mostly about “lady parts” and “lady problems.” If the words vagina, menstruation, bleeding, tampon, pad, and/or urinary tract infection or any variation of the previous words offend you, it would be wise on your part to cease reading the following post. I had always loved that Renee over at Womanist Musings posted [...]

Friends Don’t Let Friends Fat Talk

Considering my last post, I probably could not have found out about Fat Talk Free Week at a better time! Check out this awesome video from Tri Delta’s Fat Talk Free Week: Fat Talk Free Week is an international body activism campaign spanning over five days (October 19th-23rd) that draws attention to the damaging impact of the [...]

Fat: Masculinity & Sexist Put-Downs

I probably should have prefaced this post with an earlier one containing a more detailed explanation of where this post originated, but just bear with me for a bit here. Over the past few days I have been marinating on a series of complicated, highly-stressful, mind-boggling, eye-roll-inducing, leave-you-utterly-exacerbated events. I have been compelled more-so now [...]

Oklahoma Will Soon Start Publicly Shaming Women Who Have an Abortion

On November 1st, a new Oklahoma law will go into effect that will collect personal details about every abortion performed in the state and post the information collected on a public website for every person with an internet connection to access. The information that will be asked of women who have an abortion includes: 1. [...]

Late Memo: When a 43 Year Old Man Drugs and Rapes a 13 Year Old Girl, That’s Called ‘Rape-Rape’

In March of 1977, Roman Polanski, who was 43 at the time, invited a 13 year old girl to pose for pictures in a magazine he was guest-editing. He gave this 13 year old girl champagne and a Quaalude. He knew that she was 13 years old and even called her mother to tell her [...]

Happy Blasphemy Day!

As I have stated several times over the years I have blogging on Menstrual Poetry, I am an out-and-proud atheist; Menstrual Poetry also joins nearly 1500 other blogs as part of the Out Campaign’s Blogroll; see very bottom of sidebar for more infomation on that. Being an atheist basically means that I have no belief [...]

Not Even Texas is Willing to Admit Abstinence-Only Works

Texas currently ranks at third place for the highest teen birth rate in the country and they have the highest rate of repeat teen births. Coincidentally, Texas leads the entire country in the amount of government money spent on abstinence-only education. Luckily for the teens of Texas, some school districts in the state are shifting [...]

Hollywood Stands Up for Health Insurance Companies

A new hilarious Funny or Die exclusive features Will Ferrel, Jon Hamm, Donald Faison, Olivia Wilde, Thomas Lennon, Linda Cardellini and other Hollywood stars as they join together to ask “why is Obama trying to reform health care when insurance companies are doing just fine making billions of dollars of profit?” Tell Congress that the American [...]

Warning: Health Care Reform Should Not Be the Circus Anti-Choice Extremists Are Trying to Turn it Into

During a health care rally at the University of Maryland, a man took it upon himself to interrupt the president while he was attempting to speak to the crowd about health care reform and shout “Obama you’re a liar. Obama, your health care kills children. Abortion is murder.” Every day there are around five stories like [...]

My Favorite Patrick Swayze Moments

Patrick Swayze passed away earlier this week surrounded by his loving family after a 20-month battle with advanced pancreatic cancer. He was only 57 years old. I didn’t have a chance to blog about the death of Patrick Swayze here, but I did blog about it as soon as news broke on another website I write [...]

American Life League Uses the Death of Senator Ted Kennedy to Take Down Health Care Reform

[Photo source Lauren Miller] The photo above was taken during the much talked about 9/12 rally in DC this past weekend. We have seen a great deal of hatred coming from those opposed to health care reform Barack Obama and the 9/12 rally just wouldn’t be everything we thought it would be without some gravely distasteful [...]

The Late Liberal Lion and Healthcare Champion, Senator Ted Kennedy

The morning of August 26, 2009, news broke that Senator Ted Kennedy had died after a long battle against brain cancer. The loss of the “Liberal Lion” is a great one; we have surely lost one of the good guys–and he was one of the few we had left to begin with. However, while we [...]

Target Women: You’re Old

Sarah Haskins turned 30 earlier this month, August 3 to be exact, and in celebration of her officially being “old,” she did a special Target Women on what it’s like to be a woman who is old and all of those special little problems that arise as soon as you turn old. Like feeling like [...]

PETA Continues Unethical Treatment of Women

PETA, as an organization who claims to be working to end the unethical treatment of animals has absolutely no problem at all treating women unethically–as we’ve known for a while now. PETA has a very extensive history of using sexist, woman-shaming, fat-shaming, racist, violent, hurtful, and downright disturbing tactics in the way they choose to [...]

The View Replaces Elisabeth Hasselbeck with…Two Other Blonde Republicans

Elisabeth Hasselback, the notorious right-winger and frequent argument-starter from The View will be out on maternity leave from the beginning of September until mid-October. In her absence, The View will be replacing her with Meghan McCain and former FOX News anchor E.D. Hill. Both McCain and Hill have joined The View panel before; [...]

Summer 2009 Issue of Ms Magazine

The summer 2009 issue of Ms Magazine received a decent amount of attention before the issue even hit newsstands due to the cover of the issue, which features a typical white, middle-class, American woman holding many items meant to signify life as a working woman and mother. Not too bad when you think [...]

Health Care Reform is About People

Updates on Menstrual Poetry have pretty much come to a standstill over the past month. This has happened a few times over the past two years that I have been blogging here, but never quite to this degree. My life pretty much revolves around my online projects–and I have a lot of them–so while I [...]

California Cuts Millions from Health and Human Services Programs, Leaves DV Shelters with Nothing

$489 million was recently cut from California’s state budget by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The bulk of that $489 million was taken directly from health and human services programs, regardless of how important that money was to those programs or how many Californian lives they saved. Perhaps the most shocking cut affected California domestic violence shelters, which [...]

15 Year Old Girl Disowned for Having a Brain Tumor Removed

“Christian Scientists” are (you saw this coming) bat shit crazy. To truly believe that modern medicine and conventional forms of health care hold no weight compared to heavy duty praying is ludicrous, but that is how Christian Scientists live their lives. And that is what they breed their children to believe–even if their children have [...]

When Not Even Ann Coulter is with You, It’s Time to Give it Up

I have been doing more blog reading lately, rather than blog writing and for some reason, I find myself continuously drawn into conservative blogs. It’s like how you just have to watch a horrific car accident on the side of the street. You simply cannot help yourself. But while there are political topics that conservative [...]

Watch the All New Searching for Angela Shelton for FREE!

This is really exciting! The official version of Searching for Angela Shelton, complete with never-before-seen footage, is available to watch completely free of charge! This is so great because the documentary tells the story of not only a part of Angela Shelton’s life, but also the lives of countless women around the world. For those [...]

Help Cara Stay Awake for 24 Hours for SAFER

Today is a Blogathon, a day where bloggers from across the wide, wide spectrum of the blogosphere blog every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight (9AM-9AM EST) in order to raise money for an organization or charity of their choice. Cara over at The Curvature is blogging for SAFER (Students Active for Ending Rape) and because [...]

Sex Education is Being Reformed! New Evidence-Based Sex Education Amendment Passes in House Committee

Earlier this week the US House Energy and Commerce Committee approved legislation in a 33-23 vote to support comprehensive sex education. The Healthy Teen Initiative amendment has been added to the proposed health care reform bill, known as the Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. The Healthy Teen Initiative allocates $50 million dollars in state [...]

Mexican City Government Launches Free HPV Vaccination Campaign

The Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is one of the major causes of cervical cancer. It infects 20% of men and women in Latin America and as explained by Nubia Muñoz Calero, Columbian pathologist and physician, a member of the committee of scientists in charge of supervising the HPV vaccine Gardasil’s clinic trials, and nominee of [...]

Where’s a Convicted Sex Offender to Go?

Last Thursday the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit to strike down laws in Miami-Dade County, Florida, that restrict convicted sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of where children gather. The problem with the law? Well, in the eyes of the American Civil Liberties Union, convicted sex offenders are living with too much [...]