http://lunapads.com/blog Periods, Politics & Personalities Mon, 14 May 2012 23:55:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/04/tedxchangebc/ http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/04/tedxchangebc/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:17:15 +0000 Madeleine http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=8456 A week ago Suzanne and I presented our first TED talk as part of the Berlin-based TEDxChange event that was also held at satellite locations in 193 cities. TEDxChange was convened by Melinda Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (the event’s strategic partner), the theme was “The Big Picture”, with a stated goal [...]

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]]> http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/pads4girls-uganda-2012/feed/ 2 http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/all-genders-all-bodies/ http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/all-genders-all-bodies/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:18:36 +0000 Lisa http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=6960 Hi everybody, Lisa here! Our most recent guest post from Samson (read here)  motivated me to finally 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’t seen it yet, here’s the note: Lunapads users and community members [...]

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]]> http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/men-menstruate/feed/ 7 http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/luna-revolution-video-contest/ http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/luna-revolution-video-contest/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:05:33 +0000 Madeleine http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=5560 To say that we were blown away by the response to our LunaRevolution Video Festival & Contest is a seismic understatement – it was literally one “WOW” after another at yesterday’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 [...]

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]]> http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/lunarevolution-contest-winners/feed/ 1 http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/05/pads4girls-pathfinders-peace-corps-team/ http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/05/pads4girls-pathfinders-peace-corps-team/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 04:19:19 +0000 Madeleine http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=3216 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 [...]

]]> http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/05/pads4girls-pathfinders-peace-corps-team/feed/ 0 http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/04/pads4girls-mariposa-dr-foundation/ http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/04/pads4girls-mariposa-dr-foundation/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:44:40 +0000 Lisa http://www.lunapads.com/blog/?p=3069 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 [...]

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