Buying tampons is an annoyance for most, but it’s an impossibility for some.
. The UK is the sixth richest country on the globe, and while period poverty shouldn’t happen anywhere, we have the means to end this problem here, now.
The issue is not just embarrassment of ruined knickers, period poverty imparts long-term harm onto a woman’s quality of life. Victoria Abrahams, a trustee of Leeds-based charitythat seeks to end period poverty, explains: “There is an increased risk of infection when a woman cannot manage her flow appropriately.
These physical effects often swell into enduring psychological problems, “Women on their periods are already more likely to encounter stress and anxiety,” Victoria says, “having to contend with no pads or tampons increases this stress. It will also exacerbate other probable pre-existing mental health issues that living in poverty causes. These women will feel dehumanised from being unable to manage something happening to their bodies.
With so many women traumatised, how has period poverty been allowed to go on for so long? A lot of it has to do with the invisibility of the problem. There’s an exhausting stigma surrounding menstruation. Society works to make women embarrassed of our periods to the point where they’re erased from the cultural landscape, hidden away in clean white bins and bolted toilet doors.
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