Why Tampons are Like Granola Bars

by GHGP | 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...

Lift Gates and Pallet Jacks and Menstrual Cups, Oh My!

by GHGP | 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...

Does Covid-19 Affect Your Period?

by GHGP | 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...

p.s. Period Stories

by GHGP | 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...

‘Period. End of Sentence.’ And the Modern Fight for Menstrual Equity

by GHGP | 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...

The Bathroom is THE Place To Be

by GHGP | 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...

p.s. Dog + Trash = Disaster

by GHGP | P.S. Period Stories

My college boyfriend and I would often spend weekends together with his family at their house. We would always have a big lunch together with his parents and siblings on Saturday afternoons. One weekend I had my period, and when I woke up Saturday morning, I wrapped...

Let’s face it, we’re failing at period education

by GHGP | On Campus, Reproductive Health

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...