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Lisa Marie Basile
@lisamariebasile
poet, author, journalist | preorder my poetry collection, SAINT OF | @lunalunamag | my work: @nytimes @incastellated @bax_series | #fosteryouth #chronicillness
Jun 14, 2019 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
a thread about periods; buckle up.

Just wrote an article on #periodpoverty, #periodshame, and access to #menstruation products — regardless of gender identity.

#Brookline, MA is the first town to legislate FREE products, tamps and pads, all over town, starting in 2021. I know firsthand was period shame and period poverty are — and how they can fuck with you. When I got my period at 11, I felt immediately broken and less-than. I'd internalized ideas that I was gross, smelly, dirty. I cried to my mother and she assured me I was still amazing.