Links Round Up: Week Ending 1 November 2013

[frolicnaked.livejournal.com]

Hi and welcome to the latest edition of our Links Round Up!

For folks who don't know, the LRU is a compilation of items from the past week that may be of interest to VPers and is intended to broaden the kinds of conversations we have here.

To submit articles for next week's round-up, e-mail vpteam@vaginapagina.com. If you have additional articles you'd like folks to know about this week, feel free to comment directly to this post.

As a reminder, in lieu of trigger warnings, I use keywords describing the themes of the piece. Please skim these before deciding to read the excerpt or click through for the full article. Outside sources are not safe spaces, and mainstream source's comments should almost always be avoided. The links I highlight don't necessarily reflect VP's views, or even my own, for that matter.

This week's round-up includes: maternal deaths and race; a new birth control app; a brief history of the sports bra; hunger, food policing, and "those people;" unpacking some ideas about sex and gender; and trans, intersex, and non-binary characters in science fiction and fantasy.

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Thoughts on any of these stories? Also, please don't hesitate to share anything I -- among other VP readers -- may have missed! What have you been reading or writing this week?

Norethisterone

[twirlythunder.livejournal.com]

Hi guys,

At the start of september I took norethisterone for a few days to delay my period. I had unprotected sex but he didn't come. After i stopped it my period came on say 2. I missed my next expected period so i took 2 pregnancy tests a couple of weeks later which were both negative. Now I'm waiting anxiously for my period, I think I'm about 3 weeks late. I'm not having any pregnancy symptoms so I shouldn't be right? Has anyone else ever took this and skipped periods?

Unprotected sex on period

[ununpentium.livejournal.com]

I'm 24 years old, been having regular periods since I was 11.

My period started Monday night and didnt really get going until Tuesday/Wednesday.

I had unprotected sex last night (Friday) once and showered immediately afterwards.

Is there a chance I could be pregnant? My cycle is usually about 30 days long.

I am still on my period this morning.

Thanks!

Bleeding on Lo Loestrin Fe

[mypinksock.livejournal.com]

Hello, I am looking for some info/advice.

I have been on Lo Loestrin Fe for the past 6 months (currently in the middle of my 6th pack.) I started it on the Sunday following the start of my period like I was instructed to. Since then I have never missed a pill, and the few times I've taken it late, it was no more than half an hour late. Here is how my bleeding has gone while on this pill:

( Kinda long... )

Sooooo... (seriously, I didn't think this would be so long!) like I said, I have the prescription that my gyno wrote for a year supply. I don't know if I should continue to stick it out with this pill (she said the pharmacy will probably give me a generic anyway) or try a new pill. I hate all this random bleeding. Like I said, I don't mind bleeding a little bit, but I'd like to know WHEN it's going to happen and I don't want it to last as long or be as heavy. Of course I plan to call the doctor and ask her about this on Monday, but I was looking for some info/advice from you knowledgeable folks as well.

Mostly I'm just bummed that it looks like I'll be bleeding now for the next 2+ weeks :-(

Thank you if you managed to read this all the way through and any help you might give.