Role Reboot

Here’s What Happens When Kids Learn About Menstruation

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 […]

Why I Make My Teen Sons Buy My Tampons

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 […]