by GHGP | Oct 5, 2021 | On Campus
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 free menstrual products to students in the bathrooms (where they are needed). At best, those schools have an...
by GHGP | Sep 9, 2021 | On Campus, Reproductive Health
Thousands of students would 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...
by GHGP | Aug 31, 2021 | Policy / News, Reproductive Health
Let’s take a trip down the road to Menstrual Equity, shall we? The destination features equal access to needed period products and education, but the journey will be a bumpy one, so hang on. Just ten years ago, the landscape looked a lot different with...
by GHGP | Aug 19, 2021 | P.S. Period Stories
One time I was swimming in a public pool, and my tampon got accidentally pulled out, and they had to evacuate the whole pool. It was mortifying. p.s. Period Stories. Everyone has a story to tell. All stories are welcome, whether or not you get or will get a period. If...
by GHGP | Aug 12, 2021 | P.S. Period Stories
One day in junior year, I felt like looking nice for once. I wore white jeans because my period had ended a day ago (or at least that’s what I thought). In calc, first class of the day, I had to take a difficult test. During the test, I was already stressed because I...
by GHGP | Aug 5, 2021 | Reproductive Health
You may be one of the millions of mere mortals watching the Olympics from the couch, in awe of the marvels of the human body and the lengths to which the athletes can push themselves. With all due respect to the male participants, the women at the 2021 Olympics in...
by GHGP | Aug 2, 2021 | P.S. Period Stories
When I was 16, I slept at my boyfriend’s house for the weekend. I was quite surprised to wake up Saturday morning to the realization that I had gotten my period and stained all of their good guest room sheets! I wracked my brain about how I could possibly launder them...
by GHGP | Jul 29, 2021 | Behind the Scenes
In a million years, we would never have imagined that six years after our first donation of pads and tampons to a local food pantry, we would be counting the items we’ve donated in the millions. It is just beyond 🍌🍌🍌. I thought it would be fun to share a few fun...
by GHGP | Jul 27, 2021 | Behind the Scenes
Ahhh, vacation. After a year+ of online school and workdays without beginnings or endings, the Girls Helping Girls. Period. team finally got a chance to take a much-needed break. We (the Joy family, founders of GHGP) are exceedingly lucky, and we know it, to have been...
by GHGP | Jul 5, 2021 | Reproductive Health
Most of us may know her as Monica Geller, but long before Courtney Cox became the best-known BFF on “Friends” in 1994, she had already gotten noticed for a big first. Still, it’s hard to imagine she was the first person to say the word...
