Period. End Of Sentence., a Netflix documentary on the menstruation taboo in rural India, just won a well-deserved Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
The story is set in the Kathikhera village in India, where a local group of women is us…
Category: Periods
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…
I wish I’d had this illustrated guide to periods as a teenager
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My first period showed up out of the blue like an unwelcome guest that I was highly unprepared for. I didn’t know what I was looking at, what was normal, what was safe to do, or who to talk to.
Most of all, though, I was mortified by the very idea of having blood coming out of my private parts. Could people tell? What if I bled onto my clothes? This embarrassment prevented me from telling literally anyone — even my own mother — for the first few years of my menstruating life. This meant that I didn’t have proper access to period products and had to make do with pads that I pilfered from my mum’s bathroom in the hope she wouldn’t notice. My teenage years were full of makeshift, creative ways of trying (and often failing) to stem the flow of menstrual blood that I was woefully ill-equipped to manage. Read more…
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This country just made a huge move to ditch its controversial tampon tax
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One Indian movie is fighting the stigma about periods
About one act into the new Indian movie Pad Man, a man experiences a brutal, mortifying pad leak.
The man in question is Lakshmi Chauhan (Akshay Kumar), testing a homemade sanitary pad he made for his wife. Needless to say, it’s not effecti…
Would you buy these $15 period brownies?
Eating chocolate during your period is one of those tropes I just don’t understand. How am I supposed to eat chocolate while I am busy sobbing at a commercial for soup?
But those who are members of the period chocolate community might be intere…