by GHGP | Jul 1, 2021 | Behind the Scenes
Most likely you don’t know Gina. That’s the name of the image of the girl in the Girls Helping Girls. Period. logo. She got her name on a blustery March day, in 2015, when the three co-founders of Girls Helping Girls. Period. went into New York City...
by GHGP | Jun 28, 2021 | Behind the Scenes, Reproductive Health, The SPOTlight
The manager of the “personal care items” section of one of the major grocery store chains we deal with is more than happy to talk about pads, tampons, liners, and all things period care. And he does it on a level most women couldn’t. He has a deep...
by GHGP | Jun 21, 2021 | Behind the Scenes, Reproductive Health
We were doing a big donation at a food pantry and stopping each and every client (regardless of age or gender) and asking, as we do, “Is there someone in your home who would benefit from a donation of period products?” The two male friends who were picking up...
by GHGP | Jun 17, 2021 | Behind the Scenes
🏃🏻♀️🏃🏾♂️🏃🏻♂️🏃🏿♀️First… run, don’t walk, to ShopRite (for those of you in the northeast) and PICK UP all things PLAYTEX, STAYFREE and CAREFREE! You have until 6/19 to get 25% off of products AND see our logo on the displays!!!! This campaign benefits...
by GHGP | Jun 14, 2021 | On Campus
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...
by GHGP | Jun 10, 2021 | Behind the Scenes
You learn a lot of new vocabulary when you switch jobs. I used to deal in the alphabet soup of television production terms: IFB, SOT, WX*, to name a few of the dozens of words that slipped into my everyday speech over the years and drove my family batty. 📝Here are a...
by GHGP | Jun 7, 2021 | Reproductive Health
Thankfully, the development of a COVID-19 vaccine lived up to its name: Operation Warp Speed. Generally, medical research moves much more slowly, and when it comes to women’s health, often not at all. We may not see any large-scale studies ahead on the effects...
by GHGP | Jun 4, 2021 | P.S. Period Stories
Every one of us has a story to tell. About… 🔴A first period. 🔴How our periods do not align with the gender with which we identify. 🔴That ridiculously embarrassing time… 🔴The moment we realized menstruation was a superpower 💪🏼 🔴How our perspectives have...
by GHGP | May 26, 2021 | The SPOTlight
The only thing better than Anita Diamant, author of the beloved Red Tent, writing a new book with menstruation as its focus, is that our very own Jennifer Weiss-Wolf was invited to review it for Marie Claire. Diamant’s book, “Period. End of Sentence: A New...
by GHGP | May 24, 2021 | On Campus, Reproductive Health
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...
