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The Eerie Similarities Between Period-Shaming a...
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally victimized by period-shaming. Now, raise your hand if you’ve ever been made to feel like a "slut". Chances are, if you raised...
The Eerie Similarities Between Period-Shaming a...
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally victimized by period-shaming. Now, raise your hand if you’ve ever been made to feel like a "slut". Chances are, if you raised...
Wonder Woman: An Interview with Jennifer Weiss-...
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...
Wonder Woman: An Interview with Jennifer Weiss-...
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...
5 Tips to Release Period Shame
Half the population will likely experience a period at some point in their life. So, why then, is menstruation shrouded in secrecy, embarrassment, and shame? Period shaming is not a...
5 Tips to Release Period Shame
Half the population will likely experience a period at some point in their life. So, why then, is menstruation shrouded in secrecy, embarrassment, and shame? Period shaming is not a...
Period Emojis: Destigmatizing Periods or Just M...
Image: Bodyform/SCA Recently, we learned about Bodyform's "femoji" campaign petitioning Unicode to add a set of period-themed emojis to their lexicon. The change.org petition says this will encourage those who...
Period Emojis: Destigmatizing Periods or Just M...
Image: Bodyform/SCA Recently, we learned about Bodyform's "femoji" campaign petitioning Unicode to add a set of period-themed emojis to their lexicon. The change.org petition says this will encourage those who...
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...
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...
Why Inclusion Matters
In 2011, I wrote A Period Aisle For All Genders & All Bodies to talk about the harm caused by cissexist assumptions about periods and bodies — and to share my...
Why Inclusion Matters
In 2011, I wrote A Period Aisle For All Genders & All Bodies to talk about the harm caused by cissexist assumptions about periods and bodies — and to share my...