menstruation

Your period is a time for many things: comfort eating, getting into arguments for reasons you can't reconstruct…but it’s also a time to express yourself.

I just tell my daughter the truth about my period: I have PMS, my back is killing me, and we’re going to eat a lot of chocolate.

Meet 19-year-old Nadya Okamoto, a second year Harvard University Social Studies major with a mission. PERIOD, Inc. is her movement!

Menstruation and Misogyny: I will continue to march to the bathroom, tampon in plain view, as if a conductor leading with her baton. Our periods matter!

I park my car on the side of the street and turn off the engine.

The churning, and out-of-bounds, topic of period sex is still surprisingly fraught.

Hormones cause me to amble through an unrelenting fog, a fog that takes over my life for two weeks out of each calendar month.

Hormones cause me to amble through an unrelenting fog, a fog that takes over my life for two weeks out of each calendar month.