Don your most festive Diva Cups, ladies, because America is all about periods right now. » 5/19/14 6:40pm 5/19/14 6:40pm

British chanteuse Lily Allen has a new album coming out next month. But she says getting the word out hasn't been without its snags, since radio stations won't play her song "Sheezus" because it has the word "period" in it. » 4/11/14 3:30pm 4/11/14 3:30pm

Periods are a perfectly natural element of the human experience, not a blood-soaked nightmare from whence we can never wake. But you wouldn't know that to talk to many dudes out there! And maybe it's time that we, as a society, maybe fixed that. » 3/06/14 5:40pm 3/06/14 5:40pm

Some dude has created a Kickstarter for Period Panties, which are special underpants with lurid cartoons on them that you can wear when you're on your period. Period Panties are meant to helpfully eliminate the difficulty of explaining to your significant other that you are menstruating (because saying "I am on my… » 2/13/14 1:00pm 2/13/14 1:00pm

Behold: the music video for "Crimson Wave," a Clueless-referencing song about periods by Seattle pop-punk feminist band Tacocat. (You're welcome if you won your round of Internet Feminist Bingo after reading that sentence.) And this music video has it all: dancing crabs, mermaids, a guy in a shark costume reading a… » 2/11/14 5:30pm 2/11/14 5:30pm

A Florida woman, not content to play second fiddle to any Florida man, has been charged with grand theft for stealing a friend's iPad, after police say she intended to borrow some groceries and a feminine product. » 12/30/13 11:30pm 12/30/13 11:30pm

Living in this day and age, one learns to accept that there are harmful chemicals in a lot of the things we surround ourselves with and ingest: there are toxins in cosmetics, in food, in cleaning products, and so on and so (terrifyingly) forth. So, while it's probably not surprising that feminine care products —… » 12/23/13 2:30pm 12/23/13 2:30pm

In news to be filed under "NO WAY YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME," researchers think they may have found a link between treating menstrual cramps and a certain class of erectile dysfunction drugs: » 12/07/13 5:15pm 12/07/13 5:15pm

It's hard to be a passive-aggressive person in an age of waning face-to-face communication, all but robbed of the microexpressions you need to make people feel bad without actually saying anything. Thank goodness our old dotty end of sentence friend the period is here to help. » 11/25/13 5:45pm 11/25/13 5:45pm

Or maybe it's the only period anthem ever, but whatever. It's awesome, and I'm ready for the Broadway show based on it. (Can I play the role of "Rag Jam"? I know Carrot Top's the obvious choice, but I have red hair and a passion for song.) » 10/22/13 11:00pm 10/22/13 11:00pm

"My bed looks like the elevator from the shining… Contemplate, don't hate/Cause I look like Sharon Tate/or a piece of rare steak/when I masturbate." Just a few of the many amazing lines in "Shark Week," a track by a group of rappers called Hand Job Academy. » 10/17/13 1:40pm 10/17/13 1:40pm

For just $32, you can walk around in public wearing a jersey cotton, sweatshop-free T-shirt featuring a graphic illustration of a woman masturbating while her vagina is gushing blood. » 10/07/13 11:50am 10/07/13 11:50am