Advocacy / Action:

For the advocacy side of our project, we emailed state representatives who are not currently supporting the I AM bill, which would provide free period products to schools, prisons, and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. We urged them to turn their efforts to supporting this important piece of legislation. Below is the email we sent to the remaining state representatives who have yet to co-sponsor the bill, and is also a good template you can work off of if you would like to email them as well.

Email we sent to State Representatives:

Dear ___________________ ,

Our names are Grace Burgett and Kate Queeney, and we are writing to you to urge you to support the I AM bill.

We are seniors at Holliston High School, and we are taking a Service Learning class where we created a project called StampOn Period Stigma. We created this project because we have seen how a lack of access to period products significantly impacts all areas of peoples' lives, and also contributes to a serious stigma that negatively impacts people's mental health. Nationally, 1 in 5 students miss critical learning time during their period, in large part due to a lack of access to period products.

When a student in our school advocated for period products to be provided in our bathrooms, it was a big relief for many who did not always have products, but we know that this is not the same reality for all students across Massachusetts. We want all people throughout Massachusetts to feel more assurance that they will always have access to period products whenever they need them, and this bill would put our hopes into legislation.

Thank you and we hope you consider supporting the I AM bill,

Grace Burgett and Kate Queeney

102 Massachusetts State Representatives we emailed:

James Arciero
Shirley Arriaga
Brian Ashe
Bruce Ayers
John Barrett
F. Jay Barrows
Donald Berthiaume
David Biele
Natalie Blais
Nicholas Boldyga
Antonio Cabral
Daniel Cahill
Peter Capano
Daniel Carey
Gerard Cassidy
Rob Consalvo
Mark Cusack
Angelo D’Emilia
Michael Day
Marjorie Decker
David DeCoste
Kip Diggs
Carol Doherty
Kate Donaghue
Daniel Donahue
Paul Donato
William Driscoll
Peter Durant
Ann-Margaret Ferrante
Michael Finn
Brandy Fluker Oakley
Paul Frost
William Galvin
Sean Garballey
Judith Garcia
Denise Garlick
Colleen Garry
Susan Gifford
Carlos González
Kenneth Gordon
Patricia Haddad
Richard Haggerty
Christopher Hendricks
Kate Hogan
Russell Holmes
Kevin Honan
Steven Howitt
Daniel Hunt
Bradley Jones
Patrick Kearney
Mary Keefe
Sally Kerans
Kay Khan
Meghan Kilcoyne
Kathleen LaNatra
John Lawn
Marc Lombardo
William MacGregor
John Mahoney
Ronald Mariano
Christopher Markey
Joseph McGonagle
Joseph McKenna
Paul McMurtry
Rita Mendes
Joan Meschino
Aaron Michlewitz
Rady Mom
Frank Moran
John Moran
Michael Moran
David Muradian
Mathew Muratore
James Murphy
James O’Day
Norman Orrall
Jerald Parisella
Francisco Paulino
Sarah Peake
Kelly Pease
Orlando Ramos
John Rogers
Daniel Ryan
Aaron Saunders
Adam Scanlon
Paul Schmid
Danillo Sena
Alan Silvia
Todd Smola
Michael Soter
Priscila Sousa
William Straus
Alyson Sullivan-Almeida
Jeffrey Turco
Chynah Tyler
Marcus Vaughn
Thomas Walsh
Bud Williams
Donald Wong
Christopher Worrell
Steven Xiarhos
Jonathan Zlotkin

Bake Sale

We held a bake sale in collaboration with In Her Place on November 25th, and we raised money to purchase period products for homeless shelters. We donated the products to Dignity Matters, a non-profit organization in Framingham who provides products to homeless women and girls.

In total:

We raised over $320
We bought 2,245 products consisting of:
- - 312 Pads
  - 1,268 Panty Liners
  - 660 Tampons
  - 5 Bras

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