Mission

Our mission is to make menstrual health accessible to everyone. 

The Menses Project is distributing menstrual products, reducing stigma, shifting culture, and changing structures of power to create sustainable solutions for menstrual equity. 

Learn more about our current campaigns or get involved in our work towards menstrual equity.

Goals

Distribution: Getting products to people who need them

1. We provide menstrual products including cost-efficient and sustainable menstrual cups by distributing them to community partners and homeless shelters in need. 

2. Why we distribute menstrual cups (link) 

1. Stigma-reduction  “Creating conversations that change culture”

   1. We host conversations and encourage stigma reduction through culturally competent programming. 

      1. In Person 

         1. We host accessible community sessions where we open a conversation about where menstrual stigmas come from, their impact, and how to work to reduce them in our communities. We have had these conversations in conjunction with our distributions and ensure that they are responsive to the needs of our community by holding sessions in Spanish, in partnership with organizations already working in the communities and holding these in areas accessible by public transportation. 

         2. Non-menstruators are encouraged to join in on the conversation to reduce the period stigma 

      2. Online 

         1. Digital Advocacy--We advocate and share information for menstruators in need through social media platforms.   

         2. We encourage storytelling and sharing of our social media campaign “The Most Embarrassing Day”, where menstruators discuss their experiences with gender identity, their periods, and endometriosis. 

         3. This is why we engage members of our community in education and distribution sessions to ensure that we are not only answering an immediate need by distributing period products, but also deconstructing the systematic and harmful stigmas that surround periods.

1. Structural Change “Paradigm shift through policy change.” 

   1. Menstrual inequity is a solvable problem 

   2. Our team<< link>> and members advocate for legislative policy that pushes the needle towards menstrual health equity. 

   3. City Models- Creating a comprehensive outlook of how to create systems that ensure menstrual equity by design. Our Models of menstrual equity involve all the key actors in a city or town. To learn more about our work in:

      1. Periods in Shelters 

      2. Periods in Schools 

      3. Periods in Prison 

      4. Periods at Work

      5. Periods and Public Benefits

      6. Periods and Crisis Response

   4. CALL TO ACTION: To join our efforts and bring menstrual equity to your city, click here