Four priorities for ending period poverty

May 12, 2021

Four priorities for ending period poverty

Michela Bedard is the Executive Director of PERIOD, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending period poverty around the world through advocacy, education, and access to information. Michela joined us on Breaking Glass to reflect on the incredibly complex social and political landscape that drives period poverty. We talked about periods, the tampon tax, and the […]

March 24, 2021

Four tips for women’s mental health

We headed to Tokyo this week to have a timely discussion on the mental health of Japanese women during the pandemic. In 2020 alone, nearly 7,000 women took their own lives, putting the country at one of the highest suicide rates in the world. We went looking for a local expert to understand why. Dr. […]