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Social Impact Fashion Startup Oluna Is Fighting Period Poverty, One Pair Of Pants At A Time ...
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(Style)
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People who get periods have a lot to deal with. Beyond the physical discomfort and inconvenience of menstruation, the social stigma and inability to access menstrual health products is so profound ...
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Created on 08 January 2021
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I Support The Girls: This Organization Reminds Us That ‘Periods Don’t Stop For Pandemics’ ...
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(Feminism)
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... shelters across the country are not given government funds to provide these crucial products to people with periods. Luckily, there are a few organizations out there that are ready to help, one of which ...
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Created on 20 April 2020
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The Alliance For Period Supplies Helps Make Menstruation More Manageable ...
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(Living)
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Periods—they’re an inconvenience to most. But this monthly flow is much more serious for those who struggle to purchase sanitary supplies. “When people think of period poverty, they think about it ...
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Created on 16 March 2020
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Scotland Will Be The First Country To Offer Free Period Products ...
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(Feminism)
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Scotland passed a bill on Tuesday, February 25 that will ensure free tampons and pads in public places. This will make period products available to all who need them — and they’re the first country ...
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Created on 27 February 2020
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Meet Charmaine Sellings: Leader of The All-Female All-Indigenous Fire Squad
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(Feminism)
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... this period and continued well into the mid 20th century. Not only that, but the diseases and germs carried by Europeans were unknown to the indigenous people of Australia, resulting in even more deaths ...
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Created on 13 January 2020
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3 Women Hospitalized From Reverse Abortion Pill Study
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(Feminism)
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... their pregnancy for the experiment. As with most terminations, to induce a medical abortion, a two-pill dose of mifepristone and misoprostol is prescribed throughout a 24 hour period. Mifepristone stops ...
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Created on 11 December 2019
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Sweet Justice: See How These Seventh Graders Protested for Their Right to Free Period Products ...
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(Feminism)
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... range of other period products that people who menstruate often use alternatively, like pads and menstrual cups. That amount might not seem large to some, but overtime those costs add up. For young peopl ...
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Created on 04 November 2019
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It’s About Bloody Time: First U.S. Town to Publicly Provide Menstruation Products
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(Feminism)
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... becoming the first municipality in the country to provide free pads and tampons in all town owned restrooms. This means that regardless of gender identity, people will be able to access period products ...
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Created on 13 June 2019
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Progressive Christian Writer Rachel Held Evans Dies At 37
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(Feminism)
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... to the rules for women the Bible presented, from camping in a tent in her backyard during her period to covering her hair.
Evans was a crucial figure in the complicated conversation surrounding Christianity ...
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Created on 07 May 2019
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England Will Provide Hospital Patients With Free Sanitary Products
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(General)
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... The announcement was met with enthusiasm from advocates and members of the medical community, who consider the measure to be a positive advancement in the effort to end period poverty.
A 2018 investigation ...
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Created on 05 March 2019
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Elise Hooper's New Novel Tells The Story Of Photographer Dorothea Lange: Interview
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(Books)
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... and what I needed to include in the story. And then I also read other books set in that time period. I read a lot of Steinbeck and re-read a little paperback copy of Farewell to Manzanar that I read i ...
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Created on 08 February 2019
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Reconsidering Virginia Clemm Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's "Little Wife"
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(Books)
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... inging.” Virginia was 19 when she contracted tuberculosis, and she died at the age of 24 after suffering for five years. Her health, according to Poe, seemed to maintain a strange imbalance. There wer ...
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Created on 30 October 2018
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"Nickel And Dimed" Author Barbara Ehrenreich On The State Of The Fight For A Living Wage
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(Books)
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... to be homeless. I was testing if I could live on my wages. And he (Shepard) saved a lot of money by living in a shelter. So, yeah. Not exactly an even match, when you're not paying rent for an extende ...
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Created on 16 October 2018
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This Street Artist Uses Yarn To Create Unforgettable Images
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(Arts)
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... Hermosa,” London, 2017
“Tortillera,” Tulum, Mexico, 2018
“Being,” London, 2014
How did you first decide to use yarn in your imagery? There was a period of time when I really felt like a frustrated ...
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Created on 29 August 2018
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A Week In New York City On $13.50/Hour
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(Living)
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Welcome to Broke & Mad About It, where we’re tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern humans: money. I’m telling you how this millennial spends her hard-earned money during a seven-day period — even ...
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Created on 24 July 2018
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Isobel Gowdie Was Tried As A Witch In 1662—And Her Testimony Is Fascinatingly Proto-Feminist
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(Feminism)
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The Restoration era in Britain was truly a golden age of misogyny. The culturally ingrained fear of and contempt for women is evident in the literature and drama of the period. My personal favourite ...
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Created on 08 June 2018
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This Pad Advertisement Uses Realistic Blood, And It's a Huge Freakin' Deal
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(Feminism)
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UK sanitary product company BodyForm is tackling the period taboo in their latest advertisement by swapping out the stereotypical blue liquid for a red liquid when demonstrating the pads' absorbency. ...
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Created on 20 October 2017
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Feminist Book Giveaway! These 8 Books Explain Where Feminism Is In 2017, And Where It's Going
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(Sponsored)
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... how the discussion around reproductive justice differs significantly from the pro-choice/anti-abortion debates that have long dominated the headlines and mainstream political conflict. In a period in whic ...
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Created on 14 September 2017
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Behind The 19th Century Obsession With Auburn Hair
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(Style)
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... sterner sex, and of unbounded jealousy by their less fortunate sisters.
Yes by John Everett Millais, 1877
The male predilection for auburn hair was manifested not only in artwork of the period, but ...
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Created on 05 July 2017
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New Study Shows That Black Girls Are Seen As Less Innocent Than White Girls - Starting At AGE FIVE
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(Feminism)
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... in American history. During the period of slavery, black children began working as early as age two to three years old, subjecting them to the dehumanization experienced by adults and robbing them of thei ...
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Created on 29 June 2017
