On Thursday, August 5, 2021, the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research (SMCR) will host an online mini-conference on menstruation and reproductive health. The program is a showcase of rapid-fire 5 minute oral presentation delivered by SMCR early career researchers, graduate students and activists.
Registration is free (here). The program is after the fold.
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Author |
Title |
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1. Emily Stewart |
Menstrual cycle awareness and wellbeing sessions for young people |
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2. Leah Bromley |
Exploring the motivations and barriers to the use of reusable menstrual products among university students |
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3. Elizabeth Tripp |
The implications of representations of menstruation on television |
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4. Srijana Karki |
Compliance and negotiation of menstrual taboos in Kathmandu, Nepal |
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5. Jaaie Varshney |
Assessing menstrual health needs of a university and surrounding community setting |
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6. Supriya Mehta |
Do period characteristics and menstrual management affect the vaginal microbiome? |
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7. Catherine Parkinson |
Power in periods: A Foucauldian-feminist exploration of menstruation in an all-girls secondary school in South Africa |
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8. Rachel Neve-Midbar |
Poems that bleed: The Menstrual Poem |
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9. Amanda J. Campbell |
Oh mother, I am bleeding: Mothering monstrosities and menstruating daughters of literature |
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10. Bridget J. Crawford and Emily Gold Waldman |
Menstruation matters in the law |
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11. Laura Contreras Aristizabal |
Promoting the menstrual health in deprivation of liberty in a women Colombian prison |
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12. Rozita Alaluf |
Therapeutic implications and processing of menstrual narratives in psychotherapy: A mixed-methods approach |
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13. Samantha Ryan |
Mapping the abject: Women’s embodied experiences of premenstrual body dissatisfaction through body-mapping |
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14. Maria Tomlinson |
Periods don’t stop for pandemics: The impact of COVID-19 on menstrual activism in the UK |
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15. Allison Casola |
Taking Action Against Period Poverty |
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Discussion |
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