Before Girls Helping Girls. Period. was even an official non-profit, its founders (Emma and Quinn, at about ages 12 and 15) were talking to adults about the importance of supporting those who struggle to pay for menstrual products and the need for pads and tampons in...
It’s been half a decade since GHGP has called itself an official non-profit organization. And actually, it’s really hard to put that number into perspective. Most days we feel like we’ve been talking forever about period poverty, the tampon tax and the absurdity that...
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...
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...
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...
