http://lunapads.com/blog Periods, Politics & Personalities Mon, 14 May 2012 23:55:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/04/tedxchangebc/ http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/04/tedxchangebc/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:17:15 +0000 Madeleine http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=8456 A week ago Suzanne and I presented our first TED talk as part of the Berlin-based TEDxChange event that was also held at satellite locations in 193 cities. TEDxChange was convened by Melinda Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (the event’s strategic partner), the theme was “The Big Picture”, with a stated goal [...]

]]> http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/04/tedxchangebc/feed/ 0 http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/all-genders-all-bodies/ http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/all-genders-all-bodies/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:18:36 +0000 Lisa http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=6960 Hi everybody, Lisa here! Our most recent guest post from Samson (read here)  motivated me to finally share some of my own thoughts and an explanation / followup to the note on gender that I added to our website recently. For those who haven’t seen it yet, here’s the note: Lunapads users and community members [...]

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]]> http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/11/eco-body-positive-sex-toys-2/feed/ 33 http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/11/social-investing-women-entrepreneurs/ http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/11/social-investing-women-entrepreneurs/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:51:33 +0000 Suzanne http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=6473 This is a copy of the guest blog post I wrote for the Social Venture Network blog: Social Venture Network conference organizers have always been mindful of ensuring emerging issues from it’s members get a voice during the conference. After meeting Jackie Vanderbrug of Criterion Ventures at the Social Venture Institute at Hollyhock (a Canadian [...]

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]]> http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/10/moon-mysteries/feed/ 12 http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/men-menstruate/ http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/men-menstruate/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:57:02 +0000 Sara http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=5982 I am all for Modern Art and think MoMa’s current exhibit, Talk to Me, on how our fast changing world is always in communication with us is brilliant.  As much as I am one of those who need to get out of the city every couple of weeks to recharge in nature, I love and [...]

]]> http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/men-menstruate/feed/ 7 http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/bitch-media-lunapads-videos-giveaway/ http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/bitch-media-lunapads-videos-giveaway/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:00:03 +0000 Madeleine http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=5778 To say that I was star-struck meeting Bitch Magazine founding Editor Andi Zeisler for the first time is a bit of an understatement. Although it continues to baffle me as to why, I realize that feminist media and cultural criticism is not everyone’s cup of tea. It’s definitely one of mine, though, and Andi is [...]

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