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We are an organisation trying to spread more awareness and normalise periods.

[Pan Macmillan India @PanMacIndia]

With powerful essays, interviews, poetry, art & dance by policymakers, artists, entrepreneurs & those at the margins to explore the myriad ways in which menstruation is experienced, #PeriodMatters is an important & urgent endeavour towards raising awareness about #menstrualhealth

[YOUterusOfficial @YOUterusAware]

Now to pop them into the public toilets for easier accessibility to women in need of sanitary products.

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We’re setting up some goodie bags to help those which are in need of menstruation sanitary products. They will be located in public bathrooms where we have been given permission to put them.

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#periodpoverty

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Free sanitary products in all public bathrooms - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/I3wBbWHVKX via @UKChange

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TSS (toxic shock syndrome) is a life threatening condition caused by bacteria getting into the body and releasing harmful toxins.

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To any members of the public are there any experiences or tips you would give to uneducated individuals when addressing or handling periods

People are ignorant of the repercussions of not changing their tampons

[Freedom4Girls @freedom_4_girls]

Massive thank you to Neil & staff @LBIAirport for the hygiene product donations😃 we have managed to support 5 organisations with much needed items thanks to @emmaglasbey for the report that brought them too us #hygeine #poverty #periodpoverty @BBCLookNorth

[Bloody Good Period @bloodygood__]

*We say ‘health’ instead of ‘hygiene’ because of the way the latter has been co-opted by big advertising campaigns and in-store signage into making us feel that periods are UNhygienic. We say no to that. Read more here: https://t.co/iPNrYGbn9G

Stock image by Cliff Booth @pexels

[Bloody Good Period @bloodygood__]

One for your diaries…#BloodyFunny tickets go on sale TOMORROW, babes!

12noon. Make a note of it. Set an alarm. Create a reminder! Do ALL OF THE ABOVE!

More info coming soon. ❤️

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Did you know that £1000= 11,083 sanitary pads that can help 123 people for 6 months!#puttingpowerbackinperiods

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Did you know that more than 12 million people who are refugees in the world have little to no sanitary protection. The situation is so desperate that they have to resort to tearing strips off their clothes to create makeshift pads!#puttingpowerbackinperiods

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Period poverty in the uk is awful that the average period costs £492 annually, with the average person menstruating 450 times, the average cost of a person during a persons lifetime was worked out at a whopping £18,450.#puttingpowerbackinperiods