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 | 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 | 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 | May 19, 2021 | 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...
by GHGP | Jan 1, 2021 | 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...