HEJSupport Interview with Jana Girdauskas, Founder and Education Manager at The Period Purse
“Let’s reduce the stigma, let’s talk about periods more, let’s know more about it.”
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HEJSupport Interview with Kate Elliott, President at Changing the Flow
“Menstrual equity is having equal access to period products, ways to manage menstruation, as well as education around reproductive health.”
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HEJSupport plans for Environmenstrual Week 2020
HEJSupport is excited to announce our participation in this year’s Environmenstrual Week, running from October 19th-25th, 2020!
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Environmenstrual Week 2020
The objectives of Environmenstrual Week in 2020 are threefold: to advocate for an end to period poverty, to promote the conversation surrounding eco-friendly period products, and to help end the taboo around periods.
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This International Women’s Day women break period taboos to fight plastic pollution’
For International Women’s Day (8th of March), 4 women are speaking out about the most controversial form of plastic pollution – the plastic that comes from our period products.
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Webinar Plastic- and Toxic-free Menstruation Products
HEJSupport together with Women`s Voices for the Earth and Women Environmental Network hosted a webinar on plastic- and toxic-free menstruation products. You can find the presentations here.
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Webinar Plastic- and Toxic-free Periods, 2nd of December 2019
HEJSupport, Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), Women’s Environmental Network (WEN), Environmenstrual Coalition are holding a webinar on plastic and toxic free period.Meet leading experts and campaigners on that topic in our webinar and join the conversation.
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BloodySuccess or BloodyShame: what plastic-free period products can be found in stores in the UK?
City to Sea launched a retailer campaign, calling on the public to be period detectives on their highstreets
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Environ-menstrual Advocates
Kate Metcalf, the co-director of Women’s Environmental Network (WEN), identifies growing public awareness of the massive plastic pollution problem as a contributing factor to the increasing openness with which many women are willing to discuss menstruation.
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Women’s Environmental Network: Environmenstrual Week of Action Toolkit
The objective of the Week of Action is to inform menstruators about sustainable alternatives to conventional menstrual products in order to promote healthy and environmentally-friendly periods.
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