By: Kate Queeney and Grace Burgett
Provide more easily accessible information on periods to lessen the stigma surrounding them.
Update school curriculums to provide more education on periods.
Advocate for increased access to period products in schools and throughout the community.
I am a senior at Holliston High School, born and raised in Massachusetts. I'm intrigued by the mental health aspects of menstrual health as well as period stigma and want to study Social Work in college to become a LCSW.
I am a senior at Holliston High School, and I have lived in Holliston, MA my whole life. I have always been very passionate about women's rights and gender equality, and I hope to study Women and Gender Studies in college.
We have chosen to work together, because we have seen how both the stigma surrounding periods and period poverty impacts people’s confidence, creates an atmosphere of embarrassment for people who have and don’t have periods, and creates inequalities in our own community of Holliston. Our aim is to change this.