The UK government has announced a new campaign in a bid to end global period poverty by 2030.
In the UK, one in 10 girls are unable to afford sanitary products, according to Plan International UK. And 12 percent of girls have had to improvise s…
Category: Period Stigma
We’re getting a period emoji and it’s bloody brilliant news
It’s happening. We’re definitely getting a period emoji.
Unicode has confirmed the period emoji has been given the go-ahead and will hit keyboards in spring 2019.
The blood drop emoji is the result of a campaign led by girls’ rights group…
We’re getting a period emoji and it’s bloody brilliant news
It’s happening. We’re definitely getting a period emoji.
Unicode has confirmed the period emoji has been given the go-ahead and will hit keyboards in spring 2019.
The blood drop emoji is the result of a campaign led by girls’ rights group…
4 ways you can fight period stigma
Periods are natural, painful, and expensive as hell. Americans spend more than $2 billion per year on menstrual products.
Nadya Okamoto is the founder and executive director of PERIOD, a youth-run nonprofit that celebrates periods and provides menstr…
Stock images perpetuate the myth that women are weaker when they’re on their period
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Hunched over a hot water bottle. Bent over in pain. Curled up in the fetal position. This is how menstruating women are portrayed in 91 percent of stock imagery and image search engine results, according to a new analysis of online period-related content.
Period subscription service Pink Parcel conducted an analysis of period-related content from 100 popular websites, including Google, Bing, and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) website. The findings — emailed to Mashable — revealed that nine in 10 images depicting menstruation showed women looking “weak, upset, or vulnerable.” Stock image sites, search engines, and health advice sites found to be the worst offending sources. Read more…
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