#TheHomelessPeriod exposes the unique menstruation problem homeless women face
The new campaign shines a light on homeless women who need assistance caring for their menstrual cycles. According to the Guardian, approximately 26% of people in the U.K. who receive “homelessness services” are female. But in most shelters, “sanitary ware or any kind of period ephemera is scarce,” Vice reported earlier this year. Three women have a plan to fix that.
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My mental health nurse just sent me these and i thought they were worth sharing
choose the ones that are proactive and feel healthy & helpful for you :)
i take a small thing of silly putty everywhere so i can knead it between my hands and keep my hands busy if i get upset. another thing i do (which probably isn’t good for my skin so don’t quote me on this) is brush rubber cement over the places i want to cut and then peeling it off. it makes my skin tingly and it helps.
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i want science fiction and fantasy to engage more critically with concepts of beauty, desirability, and attraction as it pertains to dehumanized (but human) bodies. people of color, (and black people specifically), disabled people, trans women. which of our bodies are…
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Austria Alcantara & Genesis Vallejo in “Frosted Candy” for Sport & Street Magazine
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if you identify as cis but haven’t actually taken time to sit down and examine and analyze your gender identity, it’s probably time to do that otherwise you’ve just given in to society forcing a significant part of your identity upon you.
if…
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