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How to get involved at Cal!
Take or teach a DeCal on menstruation:
- Menstruation Nation covers the Science of Menstruation, Period Poverty & Stigma, Menstruation Culture & History, and Taking Action.
- Period Party is dedicated to the biology of the menstrual cycle and reproductive health.
Lead or join a student organization:
- ASUC Menstrual Equity Commission
- The Period Project
Where to access free period products:
The Women's Daytime Drop In Center:
Open Monday through Friday 9 am - 2 pm
During these hours, the WDDC offers hot meals, groceries, hygiene products, menstrual products, and diapers to women* and children in need through their service window.
The Gender Equity Resource Center:
UCB community can get free pads. Ask our staff at GenEq in 202 Cesar Chávez Student Center!
Discover more:
Take action!
Get involved with the Alliance For Period Supplies by volunteering, starting a period supply program, advocating for legislative change, raising awareness, and more.
Take a look at the work being done at No More Secrets, a Black women-led/founded nonprofit doing on-the-ground work on period poverty.
Start a Red Equity Period Package Project for your community.
Take action with The Pad Project, locally and internationally.
Stay informed
Learn!
Listen to local Bay Area podcast, Vicious Cycle, the only comedy podcast about periods where hosts Kate Elston, Meg Hayes, and Meg Trowbridge cover all things menstruation and cycles.
Do your own research to learn about menstruation and period poverty!
Looking for Period Tracking Apps that don't sell your data?
Be safer!
Period app users may be newly worried (because of the overturning of Roe) that data on their fertility, missed periods, and more could be used against them in criminal and civil proceedings
Three apps that don't allow third-party tracking are: Drip, Euki, and Periodical
(We are not endorsing these apps and we always recommend doing your own research to learn more)
Happy Safer Period Tracking!