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#KnowTheFlow: Gift-Wrapping Menstrual Equity for Valentine’s Day

PUBLISHED 2/14/2018 by Tiernan Hebron

No offense to all those romantic cliches, but everyone knows that buying items like boxes of chocolates isn’t a true measure of love. Buying a person a box of tampons, on the other hand? That’s when you know it’s real.

Health

Young Feminists from Los Angeles to Kathikhera are Fighting for Global Menstrual Equity

PUBLISHED 10/17/2017 by Ciarra Davison

Young feminists in southern California are working with women and girls in India to fight period stigma and help increase access to menstrual products. We talked to five of them about their activism and their motivation.

Arts & Entertainment

Feminist Embroiderer Isabel Bürger is Stitching Away Period Stigma

PUBLISHED 10/16/2017 by Aashna Malpani

Isabel Bürger has taken to Instagram to fight against the stigmatization of menstruation—by stitching delicate and powerful embroideries that depict periods on bodies of shapes and sizes. She talked to Ms. about her work, her inspiration and confronting menstrual blood.

We Heart: Period Equity’s Tampon Tax PSA

PUBLISHED 10/12/2017 by Lynn Rosado

Amber Rose wraps her hands around a 156-diamond-studded, 18-karat white gold pendant hanging on a custom-made bezel chain. She twists it open. Then she pulls out a tampon.

Menstrual Equity Legislation in California Would Make Tampons and Pads Free at School for Low-Income Girls

PUBLISHED 10/2/2017 by Lynn Rosado

Assembly Bill 10 cleared the state Senate 39-0 and passed through the Assembly 70-4 early last month, but is still awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.

Seeing Red

PUBLISHED 9/21/2017 by Molly M. Ginty

Flowing with wry wit through its lively chapters, “Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity” is part memoir and part social analysis.

Because a Period Should End a Sentence, Not a Girl’s Education

PUBLISHED 7/26/2017 by Ciarra Davison

In developing countries throughout the world—including Afghanistan, Uganda and India—between 25 and 57 percent of adolescent girls miss school or drop out all together because of their periods. Girl activists from LA and a filmmaker have joined forces to change that.

Arts & Entertainment

Menstruation and Menstrual Equity

#KnowTheFlow: Gift-Wrapping Menstrual Equity for Valentine’s Day

Young Feminists from Los Angeles to Kathikhera are Fighting for Global Menstrual Equity

Feminist Embroiderer Isabel Bürger is Stitching Away Period Stigma

We Heart: Period Equity’s Tampon Tax PSA

Menstrual Equity Legislation in California Would Make Tampons and Pads Free at School for Low-Income Girls

Seeing Red

Because a Period Should End a Sentence, Not a Girl’s Education

Fighting Menstrual Taboos with Emoji

Q&A: Menstrual Equity Champion Jennifer Weiss-Wolf on Fighting for the Reproductive Health of Incarcerated Women

Kenya’s Education Act Now Provides Girls in School With Free Sanitary Pads

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