Dispatches from the Period Aisle

All

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...

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...

Earth Month 2023: What is Sustainable Menstrual...

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...

Menarche in the USA: Florida Is in a State Over Periods

Menarche in the USA: Florida Is in a State Over...

Earlier this month, legislation was introduced in the Florida House that would, "not only prohibit instruction about menstruation to students not yet in sixth grade, but forbid any discussion whatsoever...

Menarche in the USA: Florida Is in a State Over...

Earlier this month, legislation was introduced in the Florida House that would, "not only prohibit instruction about menstruation to students not yet in sixth grade, but forbid any discussion whatsoever...

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...

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...

Aisle’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret Legacy

Aisle’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret L...

Like many of us, I am eagerly anticipating the film version of Judy Blume’s classic novel Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret. My deep affinity with Margaret inspired my subsequent feminist consciousness and...

Aisle’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret L...

Like many of us, I am eagerly anticipating the film version of Judy Blume’s classic novel Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret. My deep affinity with Margaret inspired my subsequent feminist consciousness and...

Reflections on 30 Years of Menstrual Health and Equity Leadership

Reflections on 30 Years of Menstrual Health and...

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...

Reflections on 30 Years of Menstrual Health and...

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...

An illustration of a pair of Boxer Brief period underwear & a reusable cloth menstrual pad inside a blue circle. There is a Giving Tuesday hashtag over the image and logos for Aisle and Period Purse below the image

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...

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...