PERIODa founder and executive director Okamoto offers a Manifesto on menstruation which aims to explain what menstruation is, shed light on the stigmas and resulting biases, and create a strategy to end the silence and prompt conversation about periods.
Period Power aims to explain what menstruation is, shed light on the stigmas and resulting biases, and create a strategy to end the silence and prompt conversation about periods..
Because of these stigmas, a status quo has been established to exclude people who menstruate from the seat at the decision-making table, creating discriminations like the tampon tax, medicines that favor male biology, and more.
And due to a crumbling or nonexistent national sex ed program, they are misunderstood.
They\'re gross.
They\'re embarrassing.
They\'re taboo.
Throughout history, periods have been hidden from the public.
Period founder and Harvard College student Nadya Okamoto offers a Manifesto on menstruation and why we can no longer silence those who bleed--and how to engage in youth activism.
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PERIODa founder and executive director Okamoto offers a Manifesto on menstruation which aims to explain what menstruation is, shed light on the stigmas and resulting biases, and create a strategy to end the silence and prompt conversation about periods
