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Local business hosts period poverty drive

Nikki Gasiewski, KSTV Reporter September 26, 2024

Inspired by employees, Hippie Fox Rocks is hosting its second Period Poverty Donation Drive of the year. The drive is a collaboration with the Women's Center in hopes of helping college students struggling...

USG collaborates to address period poverty, confirms Earth Fest

Jillian Schrift, Reporter March 9, 2023

A collaboration to help address period poverty in local schools was announced at the latest Undergraduate Student Government meeting March 8. USG has partnered with Isobel Day – Kent’s current Newman...

 

Go with the flow: A herstory of menstrual equity advocacy at Kent State University

Brianna Camp Reporter May 11, 2021

Chapter 1: Cassie“Period poverty is not a “women’s issue,” it is a human’s issue. Because without periods there wouldn’t be people, right?” Cassandra Pegg-Kirby stands in her kitchen, cleaning...

Senior fashion merchandising major Tyshaia Earnest packs period products into care packages for those in need at the Period Packing Party on Tues., Jan. 28. Earnest organized the event, provided supplies for the packages and snacks for volunteers. 

Period Packing Party guests break stigmas, assemble care packages for less fortunate

Holly Liptak Reporter January 29, 2020

The Campus Pointe clubhouse was alive with the crinkle of menstrual pads and the sound of Beyoncé’s “Run the World” as attendees assembled more than 100 menstrual care packages for the less fortunate...