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- Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=earlyowlsoftware.justme.justme 196 comments
- Survey regarding the stigma around menstruation in India (All) https://forms.gle/HDrAGLAVkHfaHkQD8 6 comments india
- Prison guards who forced menstruating visitor to expose vaginal and anal cavities are protected by qualified immunity https://reason.com/2021/01/27/qualified-immunity-prison-guards-strip-search-menstruating-visitor-vaginal-anal-cavities/ 17 comments politics
- Menstruation apps store excessive information, privacy charity says https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/21/menstruation-apps-store-excessive-information-privacy-charity-says 18 comments technology
- Indian students protest after being stripped for menstruation checks https://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/editors-picks/indian-students-protest-after-being-stripped-for-menstruation-checks 6 comments worldnews
- Indian college forces students to strip to underwear so teachers can check if the women are menstruating https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-india-51504992 3 comments india
- Indian students stripped for menstruation checks https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/02/14/indian-students-stripped-for-menstruation-checks.html 2 comments india
- In Gujarat college, 68 girls forced to remove underwear to prove they weren’t menstruating https://theprint.in/india/in-gujarat-college-68-girls-forced-to-remove-underwear-to-prove-they-werent-menstruating/365310/ 9 comments india
- Nearly eight out of 10 girls in a region of mid-Western Nepal sleep in dangerous outdoor "menstruation huts" during their period, despite the practice being outlawed. The girls often reported feeling heightened "stress, anxiety, and disempowerment" during their time in the huts https://us.cnn.com/2019/12/10/health/nepal-menstruation-hut-study-intl-hnk-scli/index.html 38 comments science
- Japanese department store 'rethinking' use of 'period badges' for menstruating employees https://www.foxnews.com/world/japanese-department-store-rethinking-menstruation-badges-for-female-workers 33 comments nottheonion
- HER Pakistan: Breaking silence on menstruation https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/572777-breaking-silence-on-menstruation 10 comments pakistan
- Menstruation tracking app Maya leaked info about women’s periods, sexual activity to Facebook https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/indian-app-maya-leaked-info-about-womens-periods-sexual-activity-to-facebook-report-4421801.html 17 comments privacy
- Menstruation Tracker Apps, Used by Millions of Women, Told Facebook When Users are Having Sex; The report noted that both the applications start sharing the information before one even agrees to their privacy policies https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/menstruation-tracker-apps-used-by-millions-of-women-told-facebook-when-users-are-having-sex-2303793.html 5 comments worldnews
- Menstruating Migrant Girls 'Visibly' Bleeding Through Pants While Detained, Lawsuit Says https://www.huffpost.com/entry/migrant-girls-border-detention-menstruating-bleeding-pads_n_5d694102e4b02bc6bb38d026 268 comments politics
- Some 11 popular apps are sharing the highly personal data they collect with Facebook. Among the data the apps shared with Facebook were users' weight and whether they were menstruating https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-sensitive-data-apps-2019-2 23 comments worldnews
- Major Hindu Temple Can't Ban Menstruating Women, India's Supreme Court Rules https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/prominent-hindu-temple-cant-ban-menstruating-women-indian-supreme-court-rules_us_5bb28495e4b027da00d67d10 66 comments worldnews
- India's top court lifts Hindu temple ban on women of menstruating age: India’s Supreme Court lifted a ban rooted in a centuries-old tradition that prevented women of menstruating age from entering a prominent Hindu temple in southern Kerala state, upholding rights to equality of worship. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-court-temple/indias-top-court-lifts-hindu-temple-ban-on-women-of-menstruating-age-iduskcn1m80mk 34 comments worldnews
- Staff from New Zealand’s oldest university have conducted a night-time raid to seize and destroy every copy of a student magazine, fearing that an illustration of a person menstruating on the cover would be “objectionable to many people.” Editor accuses university of ‘censorship’. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/23/otago-university-seizes-and-destroys-copies-of-student-magazine-that-depict-menstruation 313 comments worldnews
- Menstruating? It Can Get You 25% Off Your Bill at an Israeli Bar https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.819567 3 comments worldnews
- Vagina Glue. For menstruation. No, really! http://www.mamamia.com.au/vagina-lipstick-glue/ 3 comments nottheonion
- Women in the U.S. with American-born parents are far more likely to crave chocolate around menstruation than foreign-born women. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181445 20 comments science
- The reality of working in a factory making clothes for Ivanka Trump’s label has been laid bare, with employees speaking of being paid so little they cannot live with their children, anti-union intimidation and women being offered a bonus if they don’t take time off while menstruating. https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/13/revealed-reality-of-a-life-working-in-an-ivanka-trump-clothing-factory 12 comments worldnews
- Nepal: 15-year-old girl dies in 'menstruation hut' http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/22/asia/nepal-teen-dies-menstruation-hut/index.html 4 comments worldnews
- Nepalese teenager dies after being banished to shed for menstruating https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/21/nepal-teenager-dies-banished-shed-menstruating 14 comments worldnews
- Blood money : The race to crack India's lucrative menstruation market [NP] https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/blood-money-the-race-to-crack-indias-lucrative-menstruation-market 3 comments india
- India's Menstruation Man. http://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/shorts/india-menstruation-man/index.html 6 comments india
- This Man Wants A Scanner At Temples To Detect If Women Entering Are Menstruating [NP] http://www.buzzfeed.com/andreborges/happy-to-bleed#.hvxy45xab 40 comments india
- Outrage on Facebook after Sabarimala board wants machine that scans menstruating women http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/outrage-on-facebook-after-sabarimala-board-wants-machine-that-scans-menstruating-women/articleshow/49888621.cms?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=toiindianews 12 comments india
- Women are live-tweeting their periods at Donald Trump to prove menstruation can't be used against them as an insult http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/women-are-livetweeting-their-periods-at-donald-trump-to-prove-menstruation-cant-be-used-against-women-as-an-insult-10448931.html 19 comments nottheonion
- Donald Trump banned from RedState Gathering over menstruation jibe at Megyn Kelly http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/08/donald-trump-black-balled-by-conservatives-over-menstruation-comment 7 comments politics
- Donald Trump insinuates female news anchor's tough line of questioning during debate can be attributed to menstruation http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/donald-trumps-war-on-megyn-kelly-121171.html?hp=t1_r 3 comments nottheonion
- 100 Women 2014: The taboo of menstruating in India http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29727875 7 comments india
- Russian lawmaker calls for monthly paid time off from work for menstruating women. http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/30/19779350-russian-lawmaker-proposes-paid-days-off-for-menstruating-women?lite= 8 comments worldnews
- Women altering menstruation cycles in large numbers by deviating from birth control pill instructions, UO study shows http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/uoo-wam050913.php 30 comments science
- We need a petition to urge a school to tolerate menstruating girls? (the claim is menstruating middle school girls are being separated in public school for religious reasons) http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/07/we_need_a_petition_to_urge_a_s.php 4 comments politics
- Female staff in Norway ordered to wear red bracelets when menstruating http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334400/female-staff-norway-ordered-wear-red-bracelets-period.html 9 comments reddit.com
- Obama defends Sotomayor on race, while G. Gordon Liddy says he hopes conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating, calls the U.S.-born Sotomayor an "illegal alien." http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/?last_story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/05/30/obama_defends_sotomayor/ 8 comments politics
- G. Gordon Liddy On Sotomayor: ‘Let’s Hope That The Key Conferences Aren’t When She’s Menstruating’ http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/29/liddy-sotoyamor-menstruating/?pg=0 49 comments politics
- G. Gordon Liddy On Sotomayor: ‘Let’s Hope That The Key Conferences Aren’t When She’s Menstruating’ http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/29/liddy-sotoyamor-menstruating/ 12 comments politics
- The end of the period - A new contraceptive will soon let women stop menstruating. http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/health/article.jsp?content=20051213_117621_117621 7 comments reddit.com