Fame

Sometimes I’m quoted in the media.

• Menstrual cups make your period easier. Why aren’t they more popular?, by Salomé Gómez-Upegui, The Guardian, August 31, 2020.
• Reproductive Justice, Feminism, & Birth Control, interview with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, Fertility Friday (podcast), February 7, 2020.
• How Tampons and Pads Became So Unsustainable, by Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, September 6, 2019.
• What Is the Point of a Period?, by Virginia Sole-Smith, Scientific American, May 2019.
• Women and Media, by Judith Spitzer, Spokane-Coeur d’Alene Living, March 2019.
• 6 Myths About PMS That We Need To Ditch, ASAP, by Carolyn De Lorenzo, Bustle, January 25, 2019.
• AMA (Ask Me Anything) about my new book, From a Whisper to a Shout, the politics of abortion, reproductive rights, and the politics of Justice Kennedy’s retirement.
• Why private companies shouldn’t be involved in ‘menstrual education’, by Kay Standing, The Conversation, April 6, 2018.
• Menstruation is having a moment and it’s about bloody time, by Deirdre Hynds, Irish Times, August 17, 2017.
•  “Hey Baby”- the catcalling conundrum, by Anne Blanken, The Amnesty, February 24, 2017.
• Breaking the taboos about menstruation, by Susan Perry, Minnesota Post, April 28, 2016.
• A period comes to an end: 100 years of menstruation products, by Lia Kvatum, Washington Post, April 25, 2016.
• Birth Control’s Effect on Menstruation (extract from Sweetening the Pill, by Holly Grigg-Spall), by Green Feminine Hygiene Queen, Maxim Hygiene Blog, June 29, 2015.
• Five Reasons Why Street Harassment Is Serious, by Holly Kearl. Medium, April 29, 2015.
• The Catcall: Looking at Street Harassment and Why Men Do It, by David Hodari. SoCal Stories, December 19, 2014.
• Is PMS a Myth?, by Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin, Stuff Mom Never Told You (Podcast),  November 3, 2014.
• Advertising Hormonal Contraception: Medicalizing the Natural, by Nicole Lock, Nursing Clio, October 9, 2014.
• Coming off Birth Control Is Not a Death Sentence, by Holly Grigg-Spall. Lady Clever, September 24, 2014.
• Here’s what guys are actually saying when they harass women on the street, by Elizabeth Plank. Identies.Mic, August 8, 2014.
• Surveillance state: A reflection on technology, voyeurism and the men who upskirted me, by Jordy Byrd. The Inlander, June 11, 2014.
• Episode 10: Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon. The Faculty of Horror: Podcasting from the Horrored Halls with Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West (Podcast), November 26, 2013.
• Should Severe PMS Be Considered A Mental Disorder? Why Psychiatrists Added It To DSM-5, by Lecia Bushak. Medical Daily, October 22, 2013.
• “Women Are Not Outside for Your Entertainment:” Public Art Targets Street Harassment, by Nora Kenty, We Break Glass Ceilings!, September 16, 2013.
• Lawsuits pile up over popular birth control pill, by Julie Deardorff, Chicago Tribune, September 15, 2013.
• Biodestiny and all that jazz, by Lucy Feriss, Lingua Franca (blog), Chronicle of Higher Education, February 26, 2013.
• Obama birth control compromise distracts from issue of whether the pill is safe, activists say, by Elizabeth Flock, World Views (blog), Washington Post, February 10, 2012.
• Just How Safe Is Yaz? Women Need to Know!, by Holly Grigg-Spall, Ms. magazine blog, February 9, 2012.
• Forever Young: Is a local modeling competition breaking the mold or just following the trends?, by Jordy Byrd, The Pacific Northwest Inlander, April 13, 2011.
• Tracking Your Period? There’s an App for That, by Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert, Newsweek, September 13, 2010.
• Ads for Pads: Can A Guy Sell Menstrual Products?, by Zosia Bielski, The Globe and Mail, September 2, 2010.
• The Plastic Project Part 3: What’s In Your Tampons?, by Virginia Sole-Smith, Planet Green.com, July 1, 2010. [No longer available online.]
• Seeing Red: A Cultural History of Menstruation, by Mary O’Connell, CBC Radio, June 14 & 21, 2010. Listen to Part 1 and Part 2 online.
• How the Pill Changed the World, Radio Interview, KCBS, May 11, 2010. [Not available online.]
• Oral contraceptives have had broad impact but some seek alternatives to the pill, by Melissa Bell, Washington Post, May 11, 2010.
• Reproductive Writes: I Choose My Choice: An Interview with Elizabeth Kissling, by Holly Grigg-Spall, Bitch Media, March 22, 2010.
• It’s 2010, So Why Are We Still Having Periods?, Company (British women’s magazine), February 2010, (pp. 76-78). [Not available online.]
• Women’s eNews, Journalist of the Month, November 2009: “Kissling’s Menstruation Blog Talks All About It”, by Jackie Bischof, Women’s eNews, November 18, 2009.
• A campaign that erases a layer of euphemisms, by Andrew Adam Newman, New York Times, March 19, 2009.