If Men Had Periods
This is a guest blog, written by Louise Ryder who you'll find working behind the scenes here at Red School and on her own page at Woman in Power. If men had periods, there would be free menstrual products in…
How To Support Your Child With Their First Period And Beyond
Written by Emily Stewart, founder of The Real Period Project and the guide for our new Mothering Your Daughter Through Menarche course. Much of what made starting periods so hard for most people was the secrecy and silence surrounding this…
Three Ways to Prepare Your Child For Their First Period (Part 2)
Written by Emily Stewart, founder of The Real Period Project and the guide for our new Mothering Your Daughter Through Menarche course. Whilst there is still a long way to go in our culture in learning to appreciate periods and…
Three Ways To Prepare Yourself For Your Child’s First Period (Part 1)
Written by Emily Stewart, founder of The Real Period Project and the guide for our new Mothering Your Daughter Through Menarche course. Puberty. We all survived it, grew up and got on with our lives, putting those awkward years behind…
Go tenderly into the void
Boy, are we in the mother of all voids right now, collectively. We wake up at the start of the week not knowing what we'll face. We're walking on constantly shifting sands. The future is a big unknown. The interesting…
My big bleed for Coronavirus
So, what do you do when faced with a never-seen-before global crisis, the ensuing waves of fear, hideous confusion and unknown unknowns? Who knows? I didn't know. But I kept faith with my lil ol’ menstrual cycle. And it drew me deeper…
Five Ways to Have the Best Menopause Ever
Our whole lives, we’re taught that menopause is a big drama, an ordeal that we somehow have to survive. Many women find themselves blindly navigating their way through this transition, feeling lost, mad and dismissed. They’ve been cast outside of…
How can menstruality heal our relationship to earth? It’s time for radical action.
We’ve been dreaming into this question for the last three decades, and never has there been a more important time to listen for the answer. Although the Extinction Rebellion is doing a phenomenal job of raising awareness of the climate…
Menstruality is going global – thanks to YOU.
Did you hear? A film about the menstrual cycle just won an Oscar! ‘Period. End of Sentence’ is part of a budding global movement to tell the story of menstruality, and it’s so thrilling to witness. At Red School, we…
Adventures in creativity
We had hit That Moment. You know the place...it’s when you wonder why you are doing what you are doing, the moment when you think it’s all s**t, or you’re just punch drunk with exhaustion and never want to see…