The conversation around waste and reducing our carbon footprint is constantly evolving, and for some, the transition to a more eco-conscious lifestyle has been a no-brainer (hands up if you also can’t do life without your keep cup). While the focus has largely been...
No matter how many bloody periods we’ve had in our lives, we can still feel totally blindsided or caught off guard when they hit. We bleeders know that our periods have a real knack for timing and a flair for the dramatic, throwing our schedules, sex lives and skin...
Let’s get real, wiggling into our fitness gear and suffocating ourselves trying to squeeze into a sports bra isn’t the first thing we jump to do when we’ve just got our period. But just because we bleed every month doesn’t mean we’ve got to hibernate for a week und...
Have you ever looked down at your underwear and thought - wtf is that normal?! Not only is another pair of cute underwear ruined, but the unexpected colour of the bloodstain can cause some major anxiety. Here’s a truth we ...
In my book Bad Habits, a group of hockey players mocks my heroine, Alex, for buying tampons. Undaunted, she responds by raining down a shower of neon-wrapped tampo...
When lockdown was first announced last March (a one-year anniversary nobody wants to celebrate), I never realised just how much staying indoors would affect my mental health. While I was taking care of myself physically by ...
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome affects 1 in 10 women in the UK, and is so often undiagnosed that those who have it are left suffering for years without any proper explanation. However, if you’re also a fat woman with PCOS, this can be an even bigger battle to climb. Ohne guest writer Lydia Ume shar...
In society, we pretty much only talk about the female menstrual cycle. Because it’s the one that brings life into the world, yes, but also because *sound the feminist alarm* the world has been built to treat men as the default; with anything to do with female biology being treated as deviant from...
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you can either donate your next kit to the CFO activity hub – a rehabilitation hub for women serving a community sentence who are creating self-care packages to support women who can’t afford period products – or donate the value of your kit to school club zambia – a Zambian NPO providing education, training and re-usable pads to girls in rural areas.
🎁 your kit your choice 🎁
