{"id":9506,"date":"2016-04-15T15:49:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T19:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilith.org\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=9506"},"modified":"2016-04-15T15:49:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T19:49:39","slug":"high-school-hijacks-menstruation-taboos","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/lilith.org\/articles\/high-school-hijacks-menstruation-taboos\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Hijacks Menstruation Taboos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>At George School, a private school in Newtown, Pa., Vienna Vernose, a senior, was upset after a boy reacted by saying \u201cew\u201d when a tampon fell from her backpack. She talked about it with male and female classmates in her Women\u2019s History Seminar, who decided to form the Menstrual Product Equality campaign, setting out bowls filled with tampons in public areas during the school\u2019sronu open house. Signs next to the bowls read, \u201cThese are here for anyone who needs them. Never be ashamed of your body and what it needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, a writer and lawyer from Maplewood, N.J., who is involved in the push for lifting taxes and providing supplies in public restrooms and schools, said her \u201cAha\u201d moment came when young women in her town launched a tampon collec- tion drive for the local food pantry, as part of a group called Girls Helping Girls. Period.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Roni Caryn Rabin, from <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/29\/free-the-tampons\/\">\u201cFree the Tampons,\u201d<\/a> New York Times, March 1, 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At George School, a private school in Newtown, Pa., Vienna Vernose, a senior, was upset after a boy reacted by saying \u201cew\u201d when a tampon fell from her backpack. She<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/lilith.org\/articles\/high-school-hijacks-menstruation-taboos\/\" title=\"ReadHigh School Hijacks Menstruation Taboos\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilith.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/9506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilith.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilith.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilith.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilith.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilith.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilith.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}