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Tell the FDA to Act on Emergency Contraception from Center for Reproductive Rights on Vimeo.

With the Ides of March (3/15), Pi Day (3/14), and Dodge the Drunk Douchebag Day (3/17), in March, you might forget that today's Back Up Your Birth Control Day, started to raise awareness about emergency contraception and the politics behind it. This year the Center for Reproductive Rights is focusing on re-lighting a fire beneath the FDA's butt, since last year they promised to make emergency contraception easier to access for women of all ages. Unfortunately, it's still only available behind the counter and you need to prove you're over 17 to access it. To spread the message, CRR's made a short video that combines some of my favorite things, like talking bunnies and reproductive rights. Video transcript after jump.

University of Massachusetts professor Chris Bobel is the author of the soon to be released book New Blood: Third-Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation. In the second part of this two-part interview she unpacks periods and the activism, advertising and controversy that makes them so very personal and so very political.