Aisle Partners with Food Banks Canada to Supply Reusable Menstrual Products
Aisle Partners with Food Banks Canada to Supply Reusable Menstrual Products
We’re thrilled to see the Government of Canada taking meaningful steps to providing marginalized people in Canada with a choice of sustainable disposable as well as reusable pads and period... Read more...
How Post-Secondary Institutions are Achieving Universal Sustainable Menstrual Equity
How Post-Secondary Institutions are Achieving Universal Sustainable Menstrual Equity
When it comes to period poverty, reusable menstrual products have an essential role to play in achieving universal, sustainable menstrual equity. The Aisle team has created a new free resource... Read more...
More Good News in Canadian Menstrual Equity!
More Good News in Canadian Menstrual Equity!
The Canadian government has made recent strides toward ending period poverty. Food Banks Canada will be administering a national pilot to provide free menstrual products as part of a $25 million Menstrual... Read more...
Period Poverty: A Day in the Life of a Student
Period Poverty: A Day in the Life of a Student
What does period poverty actually look like? In order to describe it, we thought about all of the stories that have been shared with our team over the past decades,... Read more...
Moon Time ‘Zine launches in partnership with First Nations and The Period Purse!
Moon Time ‘Zine launches in partnership with First Nations and The Period Purse!
‘Moon Time’ is a common expression among Indigenous Peoples for menstruation, and indicates the relationship between the lunar cycle (28 days) and the human menstrual cycle. The purpose of the... Read more...
Go, Canada! Federally-regulated employers now mandated to provide workplace menstrual products
Go, Canada! Federally-regulated employers now mandated to provide workplace menstrual products
New changes to the Canadian Labour Code mandate that federally-regulated workplaces must provide menstrual products to their workers. To support employers as they navigate these new regulations, Aisle has published a... Read more...
The PERIOD. Chapter at the University of Central Florida making reusable pads to donate in collaboration with Days for Girls!
Earth Month 2023: What is Sustainable Menstrual Equity?
Most approaches to period poverty understandably focus on short-term, urgent needs, for example students in schools, or employees in workplaces. But the bigger-picture solution is not just having more pads and tampons... Read more...
The Future of Period Equity
The Future of Period Equity
In the past couple of years, our vision of Universal access to safe, quality, sustainable, shame-free period care and education for everyone who menstruates has been gaining ground, with free disposable pads... Read more...
Reflections on 30 Years of Menstrual Health and Equity Leadership
Reflections on 30 Years of Menstrual Health and Equity Leadership
One of the things that I am often asked is how things have changed in the reusable menstrual product space over 30 years, and my answer is that it’s a... Read more...
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Menstrual Equity with the Period Purse
Menstrual equity is the idea that access to free, quality menstrual products, education and a shame-free attitude about periods are essential for full and dignified participation in life for everyone... Read more...
Free Reusables: The Next Step Towards Menstrual Equity
Free Reusables: The Next Step Towards Menstrual Equity
Menstrual products are essential personal hygiene supplies, alongside toilet paper, hand soap and paper towels. Provision of these essential supplies are unquestionably the re sponsibility of the institutions where the bathrooms... Read more...
Boxers Under The Tree - An Initiative in support of transgender youth
Boxers Under The Tree - An Initiative in support of transgender youth
The effects of gender dysphoria vary from person-to-person but many people told us that that gender-affirming period underwear like our period boxers makes having a period a little more bearable.... Read more...
Aisle’s 2021 Social and Environmental Impact Report
Aisle’s 2021 Social and Environmental Impact Report
Sustainability and transparency are two important value pillars for Aisle. While many of our efforts are ongoing (such as our commitment to being a top ranked B Corp and conducting... Read more...
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Full Report: Supporting Menstrual Health and Equity in Post-Secondary Institutions with Reusable Menstrual Products
Free Periods Canada surveyed post-secondary students across Canada and collected 470 responses and summarized those results in a report, which is now available for download here. Read more...
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How One Doula Provides Abortion Support
Sierra Holland on why abortion stigma is violence, how there is no one way to support someone having an abortion, and why abortion work must include the continual work of... Read more...
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Re-Indigenizing Menstrual Health
We partnered with The Menstrual Health Hub to create a Decolonizing Menstrual Health interview series, in an effort to center Indigenous and Métis voices and vastly grow our collective understanding of menstrual... Read more...
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Obstacles to Students Using Reusable Menstrual Products: The Current Reality & Ways Forward
What stops students from using more sustainable and/or reusable menstrual products, and how we can promote sustainability while reducing period poverty? Read more...
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Why We Need Better Menstrual Health Education
Stigma, shame & bullying -  these are the fruits of society’s decision to avoid talking about menstrual health. Read more...
The State of the Tampon Tax
The State of the Tampon Tax
It's been six years since The Year of the Period. How much progress has been made since then on the Tampon Tax, and how far is left to go? Read more...
Medical Bias and Endometriosis
Medical Bias and Endometriosis
According to an article in Contemporary OB/GYN “Black women are only about half as likely to be diagnosed with endometriosis compared to white women” so is it any surprise that... Read more...
Menstrual Equity 101
Menstrual Equity 101
New to menstrual equity? Keep reading for a brief overview of what the term means, and what you can do to help eliminate period poverty in your community.  Read more...
COVID-19 Is A Feminist Nightmare
COVID-19 Is A Feminist Nightmare
This world works better for some than others, and when the chips are down, we do not experience disaster equally.  Read more...
Cloth Masks For The DTES: An FAQ
Cloth Masks For The DTES: An FAQ
In this time of crisis, Aisle is deploying its manufacturing resources to support our community’s most vulnerable population with PPE. We're calling on our community to join us in funding... Read more...
It's Time For Ottawa To Recognize Periods
It's Time For Ottawa To Recognize Periods
The Great Menstrual Products Unavailability Crisis is real.  Read more...
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Period Poverty In Canada
Period poverty is real, and it is a Canadian problem. One-third of Canadians under the age of 25 who menstruate struggle to buy enough products every month. It is a... Read more...
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'We Cannot Tell People How To Menstruate': Period Justice with Chris Bobel
"We don’t evaluate menstruation as a vital sign or as part of a lifecycle. We’re not engaging with the body as a system - we think about menstruation as a... Read more...
The Painful Truth About The Period Taboo
The Painful Truth About The Period Taboo
The period taboo isn't just annoying tradition - it can deeply and negatively impact the lives of everyone who menstruates. Read more...
67 Ways To Have An Intersectional International Women's Day
67 Ways To Have An Intersectional International Women's Day
Let’s be clear - feminism isn’t feminism without intersectionality. Let’s take International Women’s Day to examine our privileges, embrace our differences and think about how we can build justice every... Read more...
Let's Make 2019 A Year of Breakthrough Progress on Dignified Periods
Let's Make 2019 A Year of Breakthrough Progress on Dignified Periods
It's 2019. Time to see some period progress. Read more...
The Hidden Impact of Period Poverty In Prisons
The Hidden Impact of Period Poverty In Prisons
"You’d ask a CO for pads or tampons, and he would ask you questions like, ‘How long have you been bleeding? Didn’t I give you a pad yesterday? How long... Read more...
You Can't Have A Period On Welfare In BC
You Can't Have A Period On Welfare In BC
Guess what you can't afford if you're on welfare in British Columbia? Well, your period, for starters.  Read more...
Menstrual Hygiene: More Than a Day and More Than Just for Women
Menstrual Hygiene: More Than a Day and More Than Just for Women
Period poverty is real and impacting folks in your city today. Here's how you can help.  Read more...
Driving Change: Talking Menstrual Justice with Nadya Okamoto
Driving Change: Talking Menstrual Justice with Nadya Okamoto
We chatted with Nadya Okamoto about her organization, life and the issues around menstrual product accessibility. Here’s what she had to say! Read more...
Wonder Woman: An Interview with Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
Wonder Woman: An Interview with Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
If you're a menstrual activist, you probably already know the name Jennifer Weiss-Wolf. For the unfamiliar, Jennifer is a writer, activist and policy warrior leading the charge in the U.S. movement to eliminate... Read more...
Periods & The City
Periods & The City
We are just back from an amazing whirlwind trip to New York, which not-so-surprisingly happened to coincide with me having my period, not to mention a bouquet of other menstrual-related... Read more...
Healthy Periods: A Doctor's Global Perspective
Healthy Periods: A Doctor's Global Perspective
Guest blogger Saki Onda is a Masters of Public Health student in the global health department at the Harvard School of Public Health. The ability to manage our menses safely,... Read more...