By: Pauline Tennent (she/her), Adele Perry (she/her), Julia Smith (she/her), and Lindsay Larios (she/her)

As written in The Conversation Canada.

Over the past years, activists have made important gains in the effort to provide people who menstruate with adequate and free supplies. In Canada, all washrooms in federally regulated workplaces must have period supplies. In Manitoba, period supplies are offered to students in all public schools in a three-year initiative through a corporate partnership and charitable donation.

Yet, despite these advances, menstruation continues to shape lives in negative ways and diminish opportunities for many of those who experience it. The ready availability of period supplies and adequate infrastructure tells us a great deal about who a space is for: who is welcome, supported and safe.

Providing free supplies in some places — while necessary in the movement towards equity — is only part of the story.Menstrual justice is about ensuring that all people who menstruate be provided with the resources and infrastructure to do so safely and with dignity.

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