You know the character traits associated with your sun sign, your Hogwarts house, and your favorite flavor of La Croix, but have you thought about what your menstrual products reveal about your personality? Your period is a time for many things: binge-watching television, catching up on your comfort eating, getting into arguments for reasons you’ll […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
