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	<title>Lunapads Blog &#187; Activism &amp; Politics</title>
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		<title>Help us support girls and women in Uganda!</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/pads4girls-uganda-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/pads4girls-uganda-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeleine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As regular readers will be aware, over the past decade Lunapads has been developing the Pads4Girls program to bring reusable feminine hygiene supply kits to thousands of girls and women in need in over 15 countries. Pads4Girls seeks to address an often-overlooked problem that hundreds of millions of girls and women in developing nations face: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A LunaRevolution for All Genders, All Bodies</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/all-genders-all-bodies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everybody, Lisa here! Our most recent guest post from Samson (read here)  has motivated me to share some of my own thoughts and an explanation / followup to the note on gender that I added to our website recently. For those who haven&#8217;t seen it yet, here&#8217;s the note: Lunapads users and community members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Partners in Heroism in Ethiopia</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/11/partners-heroism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeleine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girls and Teens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pads4Girls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloth pads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethiopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope for children]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Partners in the Horn of Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we had the extraordinary good fortune to be visited by some remarkable people working for change for Ethiopians, the leaders of Partners in the Horn of Africa, and Hope for Children. Yewoinshet Masresha is an engaging and charismatic Ethiopian woman and the founder of Hope for Children, an organization which has received worldwide attention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sputniko&#8217;s Menstruation Machine</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/men-menstruate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am all for Modern Art and think MoMa’s current exhibit, Talk to Me, on how our fast changing world is always in communication with us is brilliant.  As much as I am one of those who need to get out of the city every couple of weeks to recharge in nature, I love and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Video Contest Winners &amp; Highlights</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/luna-revolution-video-contest/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/luna-revolution-video-contest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeleine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The DivaCup]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cloth pads]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Period Makeover]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=5560</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To say that we were blown away by the response to our LunaRevolution Video Festival &#38; Contest is a seismic understatement &#8211; it was literally one &#8220;WOW&#8221; after another at yesterday&#8217;s staff viewing. Thank you so much to all of you who participated; we are deeply honored by your efforts. The overall experience has been more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LunaRevolution Video Contest Winners!</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/lunarevolution-contest-winners/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/lunarevolution-contest-winners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=5541</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lunapads was so proud to host this year&#8217;s LunaRevolution Video Festival and Contest! The contest was a highlight of our summer and we hope you all enjoyed it just as much as we did. Since the voting period ended, we have been busy in the office watching (and re-watching!) all the videos and trying to pick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pads4Girls, Pathfinders and the Peace Corps!</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/05/pads4girls-pathfinders-peace-corps-team/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/05/pads4girls-pathfinders-peace-corps-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 04:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeleine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girls and Teens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside Lunapads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most exciting new directions for Pads4Girls these days is that we are creating relationships to facilitate learning about how to make pads, in addition to sending them over from Canada. There is much more news to come on this front, but in the meantime here is a wonderful example that is particularly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pads4Girls &amp; Mariposa DR Foundation</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/04/pads4girls-mariposa-dr-foundation/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/04/pads4girls-mariposa-dr-foundation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may remember from a previous post a few weeks ago, we have been working in partnership with The Mariposa DR Foundation and The POWER project, a group of students from Seattle, to provide girls in the Dominican Republic with Pads4Girls Kits. The 200 Kits arrived on April 6th! The Mariposas have posted a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The race to medicate women&#8217;s pleasure</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/03/the-race-to-medicate-womens-pleasure/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/03/the-race-to-medicate-womens-pleasure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[body positivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FSD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orgasm inc]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lunapads.com/blog/?p=2769</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by my courage to talk about lubes in my last post, I&#8217;m now going to talk about (are you ready?) orgasms! Yikes, what&#8217;s going on with me? Well, I think I am going to chalk it up to the new found freedom of hitting my forties and realizing that there are fewer sacred cows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the hip part 2: hippy chicks</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/03/hip-hip-hooray-part-3-hippy-chicks/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/03/hip-hip-hooray-part-3-hippy-chicks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeleine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jayne Freeman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucille Clifton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my earlier post in this series about women&#8217;s &#8220;hip&#8221; (read inner mojo) power, I&#8217;d like to share a couple of examples from a more creative perspective. I recently revisited Lucille Clifton&#8217;s classic poem &#8220;homage to my hips&#8221; and felt compelled to share it for those who have not yet had the pleasure. Please [...]]]></description>
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