period

If you are experiencing that time of the month, remember that your body is strong, complex and beautiful to withstand the menstrual cycle.

No matter how much I have distanced myself from womanhood, I still have to deal with a part of myself that is gendered by others.

Not only does the blood escaping your body reek, but so does the stench of injustice. Why can’t we talk about our periods in an open and honest fashion?

The simple act of obtaining a pad or a tampon comes with a hefty price, especially for low-income, incarcerated or homeless individuals. 

Protesters rallied at Sproul Plaza on Friday to normalize menstrual health, abolish the tampon tax and create access to free period products.

Do you want to know what it’s like to be tough? You’ll learn all you need from “Point Blank Period,” a documentary about the lives of a Miami rap duo, City Girls, and the misfortune that struck during the musicians’ rise to fame.

In a world so consumed by the need to label every detail of our lives, perhaps we get too caught up in the intricacies of using the overwhelming plethora of words at our disposal to describe our romantic and sexual endeavors. We would be better off describing them in terms of a simplified set of punctuation marks.

Maybe it’s the teenage girl in me talking, but there’s something about the surge in vampire films that has given blood sucking and hunting a renewed social capital in the depraved sex lives of our generation of perverts.