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Go, Canada! Federally-regulated employers now mandated to provide workplace menstrual products

Go, Canada! Federally-regulated employers now mandated to provide workplace menstrual products

New changes to the Canadian Labour Code mandate that federally-regulated workplaces must provide menstrual products to their workers. To support employers as they navigate these new regulations, Aisle has published a whitepaper titled “Menstrual Equity in the Workplace: a roadmap to success and sustainability”.
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The PERIOD. Chapter at the University of Central Florida making reusable pads to donate in collaboration with Days for Girls

Earth Month 2023: What is Sustainable Menstrual Equity?

Most approaches to period poverty understandably focus on short-term, urgent needs, for example students in schools, or employees in workplaces. But the bigger-picture solution is not just having more pads and tampons in more bathrooms.

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The Future of Period Equity

The Future of Period Equity

In the past couple of years, our vision of universal access to safe, quality, sustainable, shame-free period care and education for everyone who menstruates, has been gaining ground, with free disposable pads and tampons increasingly being provided in places like schools and workplaces. 
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Reflections on 30 Years of Menstrual Health and Equity Leadership

Reflections on 30 Years of Menstrual Health and Equity Leadership

One of the things that I am often asked is how things have changed in the reusable menstrual product space over 30 years, and my answer is that it’s a mix of mostly wonderful things. 
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An illustration of a pair of Boxer Brief period underwear and a cloth menstrual pad inside a blue circle. There is a Giving Tuesday hashtag at the top of the image and logos for Aisle & Period Purse below the image.

Menstrual Equity with the Period Purse

Menstrual equity is the idea that access to free, quality menstrual products, education and a shame-free attitude about periods are essential for full and dignified participation in life for everyone who menstruates. This Giving Tuesday we are hosting a fundraiser in support of The Period Purse, a Toronto-based registered charity that tackles period poverty by ensuring sustainable access to period products for all.
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Free Reusables: The Next Step Towards Menstrual Equity

Free Reusables: The Next Step Towards Menstrual Equity

Menstrual products are essential personal hygiene supplies, alongside toilet paper, hand soap and paper towels. Provision of these essential supplies are unquestionably the re sponsibility of the institutions where the bathrooms are located. 

Our question is: If free disposable pads and tampons are now being funded for students, employees and others, why not reusables too? 
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Boxers Under The Tree - An Initiative in support of transgender youth

Boxers Under The Tree - An Initiative in support of transgender youth

The effects of gender dysphoria vary from person-to-person but many people told us that that gender-affirming period underwear like our period boxers makes having a period a little more bearable. Many appreciated knowing we offered plus size period underwear that would truly fit their body. The security of wearing absorbent and leakproof period underwear also gave them comfort. These are the reasons our #BoxersUnderTheTree campaign exists. 
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An image of Aisle pads laid out on a white background. The logos of Aisle, Free Periods Canada, The Mahwari Research Institute, and Map The System Canada are visible in the lower portion of the image.

Full Report: Supporting Menstrual Health and Equity in Post-Secondary Institutions with Reusable Menstrual Products

Free Periods Canada surveyed post-secondary students across Canada and collected 470 responses and summarized those results in a report, which is now available for download here.
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How One Doula Provides Abortion Support

Sierra Holland on why abortion stigma is violence, how there is no one way to support someone having an abortion, and why abortion work must include the continual work of antiracism and abolition.
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Photo of Ecko Aleck standing in front of water. We can see trees and the lower part of a mountain the background. Ecko is smiling at the camera. She has a red handprint on her face, and a red robe draped over her shoulders.

Re-Indigenizing Menstrual Health

We partnered with The Menstrual Health Hub to create a Decolonizing Menstrual Health interview series, in an effort to center Indigenous and Métis voices and vastly grow our collective understanding of menstrual self-care, sustainability, ritual, intergenerational learning and more.
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A photo of an Aisle pad and menstrual cup on a chair. Overlaid are the following logos: Free Periods Canada Foundation, Aisle, the Mahwari Research Institute and Map The System Canada

Obstacles to Students Using Reusable Menstrual Products: The Current Reality & Ways Forward

What stops students from using more sustainable and/or reusable menstrual products, and how we can promote sustainability while reducing period poverty?
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Why We Need Better Menstrual Health Education

Stigma, shame & bullying -  these are the fruits of society’s decision to avoid talking about menstrual health.
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