
5 Festival survival tips
And yes, of course you’re menstruating exactly when your favourite festival starts. Nice…not. Take advantage of these festival survival tips. (…)
And yes, of course you’re menstruating exactly when your favourite festival starts. Nice…not. Take advantage of these festival survival tips. (…)
For Dutch readers: Period! Magazine is er in een Nederlandstalige én Engelstalige editie. Lees je liever Nederlands? Klik hier! (…)
Making menstruation a normal fact of life and ending period poverty and stigma by 2030. This is – in a nutshell – the goal of #MHDay2023. We aren’t there yet though – far from it. This is what you can do. (…)
How exactly does the menstrual cycle work? You use a lot of words explaining this. Sometimes though, one image works better than a thousand words. Therefore: menstrual animations to educate or to entertain. (…)
While most people still aren’t sure what PMDD is, another term is emerging: PME. What are the differences between those two cycle-related conditions? (…)
Language is constantly changing. This shows in the way we talk about periods/menstruation/the curse. Or how we try to avoid the conversation at all. (..)
‘Rewind two years and you might have found me in a heap on my bedroom floor, crying, engulfed by a black cloud of depression.’ Business psychologist Clare Knox writes about dealing with PMDD. (…)
Meet Donna and Ally. Two teenage foster girls on the run while on the quest to be somebodies in a comic roadmovie. One of them has an extra obstacle: PMDD. (…)
Getting your period for the first time. Not every (pre) adolescent thinks this is fun. This is especially the case for girls with autism. Here’s why. (…)
REPOST Haa’idh? During Ramadan menstruating women have to adhere to specific rules. This is what you need to know. (…)
New: the documentary F*ck Endo – More than just menstrual pain, by Dutch visual anthropologist, photographer and upcoming documentary maker Wilke Geurds. (…)
March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. All over the world, meetings and events are held to out the spotlights in a serious disease which affects one in ten women. Also, more and more celebrities share their stories. (…)
Ever heard of catamenial pneumothorax? Probably not. Rare Disease Day (the last day of February) is meant to raise awareness about the 6,000 existing rare disorders.(…)
They are not the least names that started their careers by promoting tampons or sanitary napkins. And sometimes it’s just the other way around. Then you’re already famous and you get an offer you can’t resist. (…)
Menstrual products. When considering their environmental impact, you almost feel guilty about needing them. Are reusable products automatically better? And what to choose when taking your vaginal health into account? (…)
From a song with dancing tampons to a board game with ovaries: fun initiatives that teach kids about menstruation. (…)
It is 2023 already, but there still are some persistent period myths. So, can you get pregnant on your period? Yes of course you can. Menstruation is no contraceptive. (…)
All over the world women and girls get their period. For thousands of years. Yet there is still a taboo. This has to change. Dutch screenwriter and director Catherina Iosifidis (1997) thinks so too. Watch her very short movie here. (…)
In some places you don’t expect the subject of ‘menstruation’. On the catwalk, for example, or in a hip fashion store. But actually, why not? Isn’t fashion about making bold statements anyway? (…)
In the last seven years, we have welcomed guest bloggers from Australia, New-Zealand, USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Madagascar, Uganda, Kenya, India, Bonaire, Argentina, Bangladesh, Portugal, Egypt, Nepal, Rwanda, Zambia and The Netherlands. We proudly present you some shortlists. This time: our best read submissions in the category Periods & Politics. (…)