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1. Mexico City Implements Ban on Single-Use Plastic — But People Who Menstruate Face the Consequences: (General); People who have periods will keep tampons hidden meticulously: being stranded without period products means uncomfortably, embarrassment, and ruined clothes. For people in Mexico City who use tampons ...; Created on 05 March 2021
2. Tennessee Judges Rule That It’s Okay To Film Videos of Women Without Their Consent: (Feminism); ... equipment,” they finally stated. Talk about missing the point. Image via Pixabay MORE FROM BUST Tenn. Lawmaker Worried Women Will Buy ALL Of The Tampons On Tax-Free Weekend How To Teach Children ...; Created on 11 May 2020
3. The Alliance For Period Supplies Helps Make Menstruation More Manageable: (Living); ... addressed.” Founded in 2018 as a division of the larger National Diaper Bank Network, the APS (allianceforperiodsupplies.org) strives to ensure that individuals in need have access to pads, tampons, ...; Created on 16 March 2020
4. Scotland Will Be The First Country To Offer Free Period Products: (Feminism); 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 ...; Created on 27 February 2020
5. Tenn. Lawmaker Worried Women Will Buy ALL Of The Tampons On Tax-Free Weekend: (Feminism); According to the law in many states, tampons and pads are a luxury. Not a necessity like you know, toilet paper, toothpaste, bandages, oh, and Viagra. Let it be known that what is and isn’t taxed differs ...; Created on 19 February 2020
6. Sweet Justice: See How These Seventh Graders Protested for Their Right to Free Period Products: (Feminism); ... who began an unexpected mini-movement in their classroom. The students pressed their male principal to begin providing menstrual products, specifically tampons, for free in the school’s restrooms. The ...; Created on 04 November 2019
7. It’s About Bloody Time: First U.S. Town to Publicly Provide Menstruation Products: (Feminism); ... 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 ...; Created on 13 June 2019
8. A California Attorney Is Fighting Local Jails That Withhold Menstrual Products: (Feminism); County prisons around the United States restrict their inmates' access to tampons and pads. According to an article by the non-profit magazine, Mother Jones, Californian attorney Paula Canny is doing ...; Created on 26 February 2019
9. Millennials Are Killing "Feminine Hygiene" ...: (Sponsored); ... bury the over-packaged, plastic disposable pads and tampons as artifacts of a culture temporarily caught up in perceived convenience and body shame. We’re replacing them with menstrual care products that ...; Created on 14 January 2019
10. Australian "Tampon Tax" Dropped After 18-Year-Long Battl: (Feminism); Earlier this week the "tampon tax" in Australia was repealed after 18 years of protest. Many women, the BBC reports, began their celebrations on Wednesday, October 3. In 2000, the Australian government ...; Created on 04 October 2018
11. "Period: Twelve Voices Tell The Bloody Truth" Shows Why We Need To Talk About Menstruatio: (Books); ... the tampon tax in the United States and around the world, as well as the efforts to expand access to menstrual products in schools, shelters, correctional facilities, public buildings and beyond. The ...; Created on 09 May 2018
12. March For Our Lives Brought Hundreds Of Thousands Of Gun Control Protestors To Washington D.C.: Link Roundup: (Living); ... agreement with Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, is also of note: It might be evidence that Cohen made an illegal contribution to Trump’s 2016 campaign. Read the full transcript at CBS. The Tampon Tax Is ...; Created on 26 March 2018
13. An Ode To The Girls' Bathroom: (Living); ... Men will manspread and mansplain their hearts out – but not in the girls’ room. People will cringe and side-eye you if you talk about period cramps, tampons, or blood stains openly — but not in the girls’ ...; Created on 27 November 2017
14. This Pad Advertisement Uses Realistic Blood, And It's a Huge Freakin' Deal ...: (Feminism); ... In an effort to end the period stigma, the commercial depicts several other "period things": boyfriends buying tampons, blood dripping on a woman’s leg in the shower, and a woman in some comfy period ...; Created on 20 October 2017
15. "Periods Gone Public" Calls For Menstrual Equity And The End Of The Tampon Tax: Revie: (Books); ... to make tampons and pads free and accessible to public school students in the five boroughs. My article delved into her efforts, and why it’s vital that students who menstruate have easy access to personal ...; Created on 13 October 2017
16. Period Piece: Exploring Menstrual Achievements From 400 BC To Today: (Living); ... physician Hippocrates describes women fashioning tampons out of sticks wrapped with lint as some of the earliest forms of tampons. Crafty hurts. 77—79 AD: Roman author and philosopher Pliny the Elder ...; Created on 03 April 2017
17. "People Helping People, Period": Behind the Scenes with Aunt Flow's Chief Ovulation Offic: (Living); ... a tech start-up conference when she unexpectedly got her period and didn't have a tampon. The experience made her realize that what was a minor inconvenience to her posed a major issue to people without ...; Created on 09 March 2017
18. Finally, Women’s Razors Are As Cheap As Men’s (At One Store): (Feminism); ... “Factor in the tampon tax and the pay gap (19.1% across all workers in the UK) and it becomes clear that, whenever they reach a till, women are effectively paying three times, once in their salaries, once ...; Created on 02 January 2017
19. This Meninist Thinks Period Blood Comes From Women's Bladder: (Feminism); Progressive politicians in The United Kingdom have been pushing to lift the “Tampon Tax." This tax is applied to tampons because they are legally considered luxury goods. MPs, such as Paula Sherrif ...; Created on 21 October 2016
20. Free Tampons And Pads To Be Provided In New York City: (Feminism); The city council of New York City made history on Tuesday with a unanimous decision to pass a bill that would guarantee free access to tampons and pads in all public schools, jails, and homeless shelters. ...; Created on 23 June 2016

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