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December 27, 2024 0 Comments

Period! Blog Post Top 10

We proudly present: the Period Blog Post Top 10 for 2024 (in random order). All the menstrual inspiration you need for a great december month. And for a happy and healthy 2025. See you next year! (…)

Culture
September 25, 2024 0 Comments

Code Red: Dutch research into period poverty

Dutch research from Amsterdam NGO Neighborhood Feminists into period poverty illustrates that 1 out of 4 people who menstruate are adversely affected. However, there’s also good news: Amsterdam results show intervention can work. (…)

Culture
May 27, 2024 0 Comments

Together for a #PeriodFriendlyWorld

This will be a story full of facts and figures. May 28 is Menstrual Hygiene Day for the 10th time already. This year’s theme: a #PeriodFriendlyWorld. (…)

Culture
December 27, 2023 0 Comments

The Period Blog Post Top 10 for 2023!

Normally we present you an annual overview with the highlights and lowlights that happened in the past year. This year’s overview would turn out to be an encyclopaedia. So we made you another one. This is the Period Blog Post Top 10 for 2023. (…)

Culture
September 18, 2023 0 Comments

What happened to Jackline Chepngeno?

On Friday, September 6 in 2019, the 14-years-old Jackline Chepngeno went to school for the last time. A leakage stain in her school uniform led to an unbelievable tragedy. Amelié Truffert made a documentary about it: A Journey With A Hope. (…)

Culture
May 11, 2023 0 Comments

#MHDay2023: yep, still necessary

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. (…)

Culture
May 1, 2023 0 Comments

Menstruation in animation

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. (…)

Culture
April 17, 2023 0 Comments

Don’t say period

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. (..)

Culture
March 31, 2023 0 Comments

Donna and Ally: on the run 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. (…)

Culture
March 9, 2023 0 Comments

F*ck Endo. More than just menstrual pain

New: the documentary F*ck Endo – More than just menstrual pain, by Dutch visual anthropologist, photographer and upcoming documentary maker Wilke Geurds. (…)

Culture
February 19, 2023 0 Comments

Famous – in a tampon commercial…

They are not the least names that started their careers by promoting tampons or menstrual pads. And sometimes it’s just the other way around. Then you’re already famous and you get an offer you can’t resist. (…)

Culture
February 6, 2023 0 Comments

Playful period pedagogy: out of the box

From a song with dancing tampons to a board game with ovaries: fun initiatives that teach kids about menstruation. (…)

Culture
January 23, 2023 0 Comments

Taboo-busting movie: PERIOD

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. (…)

Culture
December 28, 2022 0 Comments

Period! Annual review 2022 – Healthy New Year!

Times are changing! Menstruation has become a serious topic in political debates and the media. Check out Period!’s annual review for 2022. (…)

Culture
November 28, 2022 0 Comments

The link between Anne Frank and menstruation

Is that even allowed? Naming your tampon after Anne Frank? And why would menstrual pad manufacturers do this? (…)

Culture
September 10, 2022 0 Comments

Listen up! The Period! Podcast Selection

There are lots of brilliant podcasts about the menstrual cycle. The list gets longer and longer. So, enjoy our special Period! Podcast Selection and listen up! (…)

Culture
August 21, 2022 0 Comments

Period: the movies

Periods on screen? Yes indeed! Menstruation is also hot & happening in the cinema and on Netflix and Disney+. From Oscar-winning blockbusters to personal short docs, here are some must-see menstrual movies. (…)

Culture
July 25, 2022 0 Comments

Periods on stage

Places where you don’t necessarily expect the topic of menstruation: on a podium during a dance performance. We’ve put two of them in the spotlight: RED from Liz Lea and Pink Portal from Cecilia Moisio. (…)

Culture
July 14, 2022 0 Comments

Next day trip: a menstruation museum

Every possible topic has its own magazine. And its own museum. Also menstruation. Next day out: a visit to the period museum. (…)

Culture
May 20, 2022 0 Comments

MH Day 2022: #WeAreCommitted

It’s May again. Which of course means: MH Day 2022 on the 28th. Because even now, there are still people who think a cow will become infertile when touched by a woman on her period. (…)

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