Sex Education: Anecdotes and Apathy
Sex Education in most schools and societies has ensued multiple euphemisms and metaphors. It has been the center of awkward giggles, division of boys and girls in the class, and a universal feeling of isolation and shame. This blog explores these ideas of misinformation about bodies, the lack of concern to engage in important conversations, and its contribution to period poverty.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Mary Kenner
In this blog, we learn about Mary Kenner’s life and her invention. We also consider her experiences as a black women inventor.
Selling The Pad
Advertising and selling sanitary products have always been a tiptoe around societal expectations and limitations. In this blog, we look at the elements of the advertisement of sanitary products, in public media and discourse.
Recap 2021
Here is a quick recap of the developments in menstrual health in 2021, spanning policy, business, and education from across the globe.
Sanitree at COP26
Issy, Frances (Co-project leaders), Martha (Founder), Ellie (Sustainability Officer) and Sophie (Events Manager) represented Sanitree at the 26th Conference Of the Parties (COP26 to you and me!) at the Glasgow Science Centre. It was the perfect venue; a space to facilitate discussions around current climate-related socio-environmental issues and give voices to those at the forefront of climate change.
Meet The Team
Bringing Jaipur to Edinburgh, this is Sanitree’s wholesome bunch.
A Book Review of ‘It's About Bloody Time. Period.’
Our Marketing Officer Marina Rabin reviews broadcaster Emma Barnett’s book working to demystify Endemetriosis and other realities and experiences of having periods.
Gender and the Climate Crisis.
The narrative that climate justice impacts us all is pushed constantly and while it is true, it is important to not forget the marginalized groups it unequally affects. Social justice issues are deeply intertwined with, and central to climate justice, coming from the same drivers of consumption and exploitation. Women around the world have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and are disproportionately impacted by the impacts of climate change.
South Asia’s Hijra Community.
When Lord Ram left Ayodhya for a 14-year exile, a crowd of his devotees followed. Noticing this, he said that all “men and women” of his kingdom should return home. When he returned, he found the Hijras, being neither men nor women, had not moved from their place. Moved by their devotion, he grants them a boon to confer blessings during auspicious occasions.
Diwali.
Reflections on Environmenstrual Week.
Our Development Officer, Amy, talks about why access to sustainable period products is a social justice issue.
Bringing the Fight for Period Dignity to the Scottish Parliament.
Today, The Period Products (Free Provision) Bill is set to enter the Committee stages at the Scottish Parliament. Sanitree has campaigned for both the present bill and its 2017 precursor, the Proposed Sanitary Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill, in support of period dignity for all people who menstruate. Co-founder Martha Aroha Reilly writes on the response of the third sector to the Bill, and its sharpened importance in the context of Covid-19.
Navratri.
Not-so Period Red.
Our first period stories.
For our first blog, we decided to post some of the Sanitree team’s first period stories, as part of WEN’s #periodproud movement.