Recently I asked a school nurse, “Why are pads and tampons kept in your office, and not the bathrooms, where they are needed?” The answer won’t surprise you, and I’ll bet it’s the same answer most of you would get if you walked into a...
Ok, class. It’s the beginning of October. Enough goofing off, time for a math lesson. The vast majority of schools (middle, high and college) do not provide menstrual products free to students in the bathrooms (where they are needed). At best, those schools have an...
Thousands of students will miss school this year due to an issue that is solvable if we all took just a few simple, effective, and fairly inexpensive steps. (Not talking about masks, but those are needed, too!) Here are four things you should know about period poverty...
There are only a few reasons why school districts don’t budget for and provide free period products to students, in the restrooms, where they are needed. One of them is the belief that the products will be “abused.” Yeah, you read that correctly. Abused is the word we...
Let me tell you about a note I 🔥FIRED OFF☄️ last week… now that my blood pressure has dropped. Period Products belong in the bathroom, where they are needed It was in response to a typical REQUEST FOR SOMEONE LOOKING FOR DONATIONS OF MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS for students in...
A few years ago I was running a workshop for fifth graders at a school in a suburb of Newark, NJ, where education levels already fall far short of national levels. The school nurse pulled me aside before the lesson and told me how lucky the girls were to have the...
