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I’m very excited to be on my period today. In the last 2wks I’ve established a Free Likkle Cupboard of Sanitary Napkins on my Hall to reduce the amount of times a college woman will have to choose between a meal or a pad while on her period. 
Today, I’m reminded that my period is a symbol of connection, unity & community with other Women. I share in her struggles, her pain, her diarrhea, her cramps, her nausea, her immobility etc while on her period.
I stand in community with other Women who have abnormal flows because of PCOS #RevealtheTeal as well as the challenges associated with endometriosis. Today, I’m reminded that though periods are dreadful for some persons, it is a sacred function of Women’s bodies.
Today, our bill to provide free menstrual hygiene products to students passed the house on second reading! @BriannaForCO #SB255 #coleg #copolitics #EndPeriodPoverty
The average menstruating person uses more than 18 tampons per cycle and uses 12,000-15,000 pads, tampons, and panty liners in their lifetime. Folks who menstruate spend a lifetime average of $11,000 on tampons alone, excluding other menstrual care expenses. #SB255
This financial burden is unfairly leveled on women and menstruating folks and, arguably, more unfairly leveled on young people. The result: Twenty percent of teens struggle to afford period products or are not able to purchase them at all.
To all NGOs/Community Groups/Platforms we work with, we urge you to embrace a social enterprise outlook that's based on the ABCD model. Less full dependence on aids/grants, more focus on engaging communities to create wealth/value/solve problems using their comparative adv/assets
#1 existential threat we face as a society is POVERTY. It shows in youth bulge/high unemployment rates/insecurity. The focus of some NGOs wholly dependant on foreign grants are often "alleviation of poverty", we must displace this to WEALTH CREATION/Localized root problem-solving
E.g For projects on how to #EndPeriodPoverty
Rather than simply go to poor/vulnerable/under-served communities to share sanitary towels, we should also teach people how to innovate & produce reusable pads/hygiene products using materials readily available/accessible/affordable
Rather than simply go to poor/vulnerable/under-served communities to share sanitary towels, we should also teach people how to innovate & produce reusable pads/hygiene products using materials readily available/accessible/affordable
In the UK Always ignores women when we beg them to sell unscented pads that don't stink of pot pourri bc we don't want a perfumed vag.
In Africa they ignore women begging them to sell pads that don't cause them *actual physical harm*
Ashamed I didn't know about this till now
In Africa they ignore women begging them to sell pads that don't cause them *actual physical harm*
Ashamed I didn't know about this till now
Always selling substandard products to African women:
"Outrage over ‘mediocre’ Always pads in Kenya causing rashes, burns"
"Kenyans from the diaspora chimed in saying the products sold abroad are different quality from those sold back at home."
citizentv.co.ke/news/outrage-o…
"Outrage over ‘mediocre’ Always pads in Kenya causing rashes, burns"
"Kenyans from the diaspora chimed in saying the products sold abroad are different quality from those sold back at home."
citizentv.co.ke/news/outrage-o…
Kenyan women called for a boycott of Always, accusing P&G of supplying the African market with substandard products.
"They complained of itching, rashes, boils and burns. Some had tales of embarrassing leaks”
nation.co.ke/news/Call-for-…
"They complained of itching, rashes, boils and burns. Some had tales of embarrassing leaks”
nation.co.ke/news/Call-for-…
