Menstrual Freedom Coalition
Mission: The Menstrual Freedom Coalition (MFC) is a coalition of campus and community partners, who come together dedicated to challenging period stigma and dismantling barriers. MFC promotes menstrual equity through resource-sharing, educational workshops and community building to empower individuals who menstruate to live their lives to the fullest. Period.
The Menstrual Freedom Coalition has three goals:
- To educate campus and community partners about leadership approaches in menstrual equity
- Building community invested in menstrual equity
- Collectively increasing access to menstrual products through community-wide distribution
How to "get with the flow" and join the Coalition?
- Attend annual meeting
- Contact us! womenctr@louisville.edu .
Why is this important?
- 1 in 10 college students experience period poverty.
- THINX & PERIOD.'s 2019 State of the Period revealed that 4 in 5 students reported missing class or knowing someone who had missed class, due to not having access to menstrual products.
- In a 2021 study published in BMC Women's Health, it was revealed that Black and Latina women reported experiencing the highest rates of period poverty among those sampled.
- According to a 2021 study titled State of the Period conducted by THINX and PERIOD., nearly 25% of students reported struggling to access menstrual products. In addition, 51% of students also reported wearing products for longer than recommended.
- 1 in 5 menstruators from ages 13-19 have struggled to afford period products or were not able to purchase them at all.