Event type:

In person

Date & time:

14 Jul 2021, 16:00 – 17:30

VIRTUAL EVENT: Listening and learning about the fight for period or menstrual equity

This talk will discuss menstrual/period inequality, how these are being addressed by Bloody Good Period and how academia could work with the organisation to support them in the work they do.

Period products on a table. Image: Karolina Grabowska via Pexels
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Listening and learning about the fight for period or menstrual equity

14 Jul 2021, 16:00 – 17:30

Gabby Edlin

Founder and CEO

Bloody Good Period

Bloody Good Period is organisation that fights for menstrual equity and the rights of all people who bleed. Bloody Good Period provides menstrual products to asylum seekers, refugees, and those who can't afford them as well as providing menstrual, sexual and reproductive health education within those communities. Bloody Good Period has over 700 volunteers who provide more than 10,000 menstrual and hygiene products a month to people experiencing 'period poverty across the UK.

Gabby is an activist campaigning for menstrual equity. She started Bloody Good Period in 2016 when she was volunteering at the New London Synagogue asylum-seekers drop-in centre, and discovered that period supplies were only provided for 'in emergencies'. A whip around for donations of pads or tampons on Facebook turned into a full-blown operation to collect and distribute toiletries and period supplies for asylum seekers all around the UK.

Gabby has a Masters in Applied Imagination from Central St Martins specialising in feminism and comedy. Before Bloody Good Period, she worked in Arts Education for children and young people and trained as an artist.

She was named as one of the Evening Standards' Progress 1000 Top Changemakers and Stylist's Woman of the Week.

Further information

Ticketing

Pre-booking essential

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Rommy Schaaf

rommy.schaaf.17@ucl.ac.uk