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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.
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.
Later in life, as things got harder and harder, period poverty crept in. The amount of times we had to use balled up toilet paper — or hope someone had a tampon or pad (tamps were often not used due to "virginity" issues) ... was a lot. Sometimes we just didn't have the money....
