Today is day two of Making Menstruation Matter, the 20th conference focusing on menstrual cycle research and women’s health.

Since the first conference in 1977, the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research has been working to bring menstruation out of the shadows and to legitimize our concern with how our culture, medical and pharmaceutical industries, advertising, and educational efforts, have served women’s needs (or not). Read more.

Members of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research have contributed greatly to healthy practices for women, to debunking menstrual myths, to eradicating shame, and to nurturing research.

I applaud the members and offer my sincere “thank you” for your care, concern, wisdom, passion, and unwavering period wise focus.

You are a beneficiary of the efforts of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.

If you are not familiar with the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research and their blog, I encourage you to be period wise and check into what they offer you.