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BLEED WEEK 2022

Young girls and women should learn their cycles in detail, says an expert. (Photo: Getty / Treatment: Tina Tiller)

How to not suck at talking to your kids about periods

The best thing you can do? Start now. The worst thing you can do? Say nothing. 
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By Chris Schulz | 24th July, 2022
Guest writer
Image: Tina Tiller
Opinion

What’s it like never having periods?

Emily Writes on the life-changing decision to yeet her ute.
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By Emily Writes | 24th July, 2022
Contributing writer
The Sunday Essay: My last period

The Sunday Essay: My last period

A dispatch from the twilight world of perimenopause.
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By Niki Bezzant | 24th July, 2022
Guest writer
Image: Tina Tiller

The complicated relationship between periods and food cravings

How much of it is science and how much of it is Big Chocolate marketing?
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By Charlotte Muru-Lanning | 23rd July, 2022
Contributing writer
Image: Getty (additional design by Tina Tiller)

How to have period sex

We're going there.
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By Michelle Kasey | 23rd July, 2022
Guest writer
Image by Tina Tiller

Quiz: How well do you know periods?

Bloody clued up, or need to pad out your knowledge?
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By The Spinoff | 22nd July, 2022
Staff writers
Astar: “All these ‘stain hacks you need to know’ TikToks are bullshit.” (Image: Tina Tiller)

‘Scrub the bitch’: Astar from Good Morning has some tips for removing period stains

'All these stain hack TikToks are bullshit.'
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By Alex Casey | 22nd July, 2022
Senior writer
Free period products are available in more than 2,000 schools around the country. (Image: Getty Images / Tina Tiller)

How is the free period products in schools programme going?

When it launched a year ago it was hailed as a world first. What does the initiative look like on the ground?
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By Shanti Mathias | 22nd July, 2022
Contributing writer
Image: Tina Tiller

Ten of the greatest period moments on TV

There’s no need to make a song and dance about it – or is there?
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By Tara Ward | 21st July, 2022
Staff writer
Image by Tina Tiller

A trans man on why periods need to move beyond gender

Talking about periods solely as a 'women’s issue' makes things worse for everyone.
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By Guest Writer | 21st July, 2022
Guest Post
period apps turn your menstrual cycle into numbers. Image: Tina Tiller

How period apps turn your body into data

You get to know your menstrual cycle better. You also get to live in a world where your information is other people's profit.
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By Shanti Mathias | 21st July, 2022
Contributing writer
Image: Tina Tiller

Everything you ever wanted to know about periods, part two

Including the truth about the "menstrual chaos" of menopause.
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By The Spinoff | 20th July, 2022
Staff writers
The moon is my period tracker (Image: Tina Tiller/Getty)

The moon is a period tracker: Using the maramataka to understand my ikura

My tūpuna celebrated their periods. After 10 years resenting mine, I’m learning to celebrate it too.
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By Alice Webb-Liddall | 20th July, 2022
Contributing writer
Image: Tina Tiller

Bloody hell: Outstanding period horror stories from across Aotearoa

Warning: these stories are not for the faint of heart. 
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By Group Think | 19th July, 2022
A bunch of people
Image by Tina Tiller

Everything you ever wanted to know about periods, part one

Today: the nuts and bolts of bleeding and busting some myths. 
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By The Spinoff | 19th July, 2022
Staff writers
Image by Tina Tiller and Archi Banal

Siouxsie Wiles: What Covid-19 and vaccines do to our periods

We still need a lot more research.
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By Siouxsie Wiles | 19th July, 2022
Contributing writer
Image: Tina Tiller

‘It was just part of her story’: Tessa Duder on writing periods into the Alex novels

'If that kind of conversation is going to upset some readers, well, I’m sorry, that’s just how it is.'
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By Alex Casey | 18th July, 2022
Senior writer
Image: Supplied / Tina Tiller

Why I threw myself a period party

I'd decorate with glittery period products, and we'd guzzle Bloody Marys while the kids whacked a tampon piñata filled with red candy.
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By Rachel Judkins | 18th July, 2022
Contributing writer
Image by Tina Tiller

Why we’re talking about periods all week on The Spinoff

Heavy? Light? We'll have something for you.
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By Alex Casey | 18th July, 2022
Senior writer
Understanding the full monthly has huge benefits. (Image: Archi Banal)

How a Pasifika media company came to be a leader in the menstrual leave movement

Pacific Media Network is one of just a handful of NZ companies to have introduced an official menstrual leave policy.
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By Sela Jane Hopgood | 7th April, 2022
Pacific communities editor

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