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#Next100Years: A Bloody Novel Way to Tackle Period Poverty

I remember fighting with my Nana when I first got my period. Not just because I was hormonal as f*ck, but because she kept insisting that I use pads when I was determined to try tampons! Despite our monthly bickering, I was lucky. Bloody lucky. I was young, but still fortunate …

Free Condoms Aren’t A Symbol of the Patriarchy

If you’re a person who menstruates, or have ever spent any time talking to people who menstruate, you’ll know that sanitary products can be expensive, in part because they are taxed as a ‘luxury’, as if bleeding from your vagina every month or so is akin to an All Inclusive …

1p Tampons and Other Myths About Period Poverty

Recently I have been thinking about how to engage people who don’t menstruate — namely cis men — into reducing period poverty and the taboos existing around menstruation. I have successfully detached my male friends from the “periods are gross” trope, but I realise that many non-menstruating people have no …

Contraception and Me: The Contraceptive Injection

TW: Mentions of mental health conditions and weight gain and loss issues. Mention of abortion. “Contraception and Me” speaks to real people about their contraception experiences and gives you their honest answers. Each month, we’ll look at a different kind of contraception. This month, we’re looking at the contraceptive injection. — …

“Periods Are Dirty”, and Other Period Myths Busted

When I first started my period, aged 11, I didn’t really know what was happening. I knew that the blood in my underwear was my period and I’d heard of tampons and pads before, but other than that I was pretty clueless. The information I was eventually given didn’t help …

A New Period in My Life: Coming off the Pill

I first started having periods when I was eleven. I remember my first period clearly: I was on holiday in Wales with my family and best friend, I was wearing bright pink knickers, and although I vaguely knew what was going on I was too confused and embarrassed to tell …

How Becoming Period Positive Has Transformed My Life

I didn’t discover the period positivity movement until around 2015, even though I had been period positive since I was a teenager. I can’t exactly pinpoint the moment I decided to change my mindset; it’s like one day I woke up and just got sick of all the patriarchal bullsh*t …

Tackling the Bloody Issue of Period Poverty

Period poverty-when people in poverty are unable to afford sanitary products like pads and tampons-is on the rise. Indeed, anyone who has donated to a food bank or homeless shelter will know that sanitary products are always warmly welcomed. This is not surprising, given that women, non-binary, and trans people …
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