When International Women’s Day comes around each year, it can sometimes feel hard to see through the girlboss marketing and fast-fashion campaigns to what really matters.
Bloody Good Period do the increasingly important work of getting period products to refugees, asylum seekers, food bank users and others who can’t afford them. They proudly lead the fight for menstrual equity and the rights of all people who bleed.Online abuse is a huge problem, particularly for Black women and other people of colour and LGBTQ+ and other marginalised people, who often find themselves as targets.
Made up of over 135 specialist women’s support services, researchers, activists, survivors and NGOs, it believes that violence against women is not inevitable and works to tear up the systems that enable it and build a fairer world in its place.Pregnant Then Screwed was launched on International Women’s Day in 2015 by Joeli Brearley as a space for mothers to share their stories of discrimination.
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