Everyone pees. Everyone poops. And women have periods. The movie Period. End of Sentence. won an Oscar on Sunday night. The film was created by Oakwood High School (California) students. They also founded a nonprofit organization called The Pad Project which targets the stigma of menstruation. The movie begins in a rural village outside of […]
I just tell my daughter the truth: I have PMS, my back is killing me, and we’re going to eat a lot of chocolate. My daughter is singing. There’s nothing that makes me happier. At 2 years old, her grasp of pitch and rhythm are rudimentary at best, but what she lacks in technique she […]
I will continue to announce when my cup runneth over. I will continue to march to the bathroom, tampon in plain view, as if a conductor leading with her baton. I recently got back from visiting my conservative Christian family in North Idaho. It was a peaceful visit for the most part—no blowouts over Black […]
If there had been period-havers at the table when these sales taxes were originally drafted, you can bet that there would’ve, at the very least, been a conversation about where the lines are drawn. In college, I worked as a janitor at night to help cover my rent and food. Going to school full-time was […]
I don’t think they’ll ever offer their girlfriends Midol, but periods have lost their mystique and element of shame. I met my first real boyfriend my sophomore year of high school. Every afternoon when he wasn’t working, we hung out at his house while his mom was at work. One of those afternoons, not long […]
I will give her my undivided attention. No judgment. No interruptions. No advice. I will look her in the eyes and consume her every word. For a free-spirited tweenage girl whose aim is to conquer the world single-handedly, being told that she will soon wear a training bra and have periods for the REST OF HER […]
I didn’t want to always have to pay attention to my body. I wanted to have a life. Women are not supposed to talk about their periods, we have to be discreet and hide the fact that we have them every month. Luckily, more women are publicly talking about periods these days. For example, photographer Rupi Kaur […]
Curvy is just who I am. I have the same kind of body that my mother had, that my grandmothers had. And I take good care of it. I can’t tell you exactly how it happened. I wish I could tell you there is a magic solution out there that could make all women accept […]
