Because we have always used gender-inclusive language in our work since our founding in 2015, we recognized that the Menstrual Equity for All Act in the U.S. House needed to do the same. In 2016, we helped successfully advocate for the replacement of “women and girls” in the bill to “people who menstruate.” This language change ensures trans and nonbinary menstruators are not left behind once the legislation passes both chambers of the U.S. Congress.

We have also met with local and state leaders to recognize the month of May as International Period Month.

Because menstrual health education in schools both in the U.S. and abroad is not culturally competent or medically accurate, we created and distributed novel menstrual health education to high school and university students in the U.S. and abroad.

We also distributed menstrual health education in the Pashto and Dari languages to resettling Afghan refugees in the U.S. through partnerships with local Muslim community organizers and medical students and with GladRags.

Our team has created zines and illustrations to raise awareness and demonstrate links between menstrual justice and issue areas such as environmental justice and education equity.

During the start and peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, our clubs across the U.S. increased our menstrual product distribution to address the needs of those who are unhoused or low-income. We have distributed over 300,000 products to those in need.

In 2021, we named the month of May as International Period Month. That year and in 2022, we celebrated and honored menstruators through over 100 events with partners nationally and globally.

We also led a radical book club, Reading For The Revolution, that educated hundreds across the country.

We have provided items such as underwear and period products to hurricane victims in Texas and Haiti, to resettling refugees in Wisconsin, to workers in Bangladesh, to children in Kenya, and to orphaned children in South India.

In Telangana, we not only provided menstrual products, but funding for regular physician visits and nutritional supplements to ensure those young girls had the resources and care they needed to thrive.