Topic: Period Poverty

Two young women show tampons they made out of menstrual pads similar to those they would make while incarcerated at the Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center in Winchester, VA, from their temporary home at Friends of Guest House, a residential re-entry program for female non-violent offenders, in Alexandria, VA, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. (Allison Shelley/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Is it safe to use homemade tampons?

Nicole Karlis
Close-Up Of Woman Hand Holding Tampons (Isabel Pavia)

"Period poverty" is real

Mary Elizabeth Williams