In 2022, we launched a project to distribute 10,000 reusable menstrual supplies free of charge through foodbanks, after school programs, and shelters across the US and to cover the world in uteruses to alleviate period poverty and eliminate shame. This blank canvas serves as an interactive support system to continue that mission, release shame, connect, and spark collective education.
Share occurrences tracking male biological assumptions or misinformed advice.
Admit previous structural reproductive confusion or things you were today years old when you finally unlocked.
I knew through my own experience in childhood and as a teacher of freshmen that boys who lacked maturity and science education shamed girls for starting, not starting, or having their periods.
Locked down outside the United States in 2020, I started collecting NFTs. I enjoyed the hobby, but found the space not just dismissive of women, but outright hostile.
After a male collector reached out to share his concerns about the lack of diversity and treatment of women there, I joked that "Maybe I could mint a pair of balls and be included."
I hired a team of women to create the artwork, and we designed Goddess Boxes, which included uterus-patterned, reusable menstrual pads, and menstrual cups, distributed for free throughout the United States.
In March 2024, the White House signed a landmark Executive Order to drastically accelerate women's health research. This mandated that the NIH completely overhaul its tracking metrics, launched a massive federal agenda for mid-life care, and deployed $110 million via ARPA-H.
In response, I created this website to continue to provide free, reusable menstrual supplies and to give women an interactive platform to connect, release shame, and spark collective education.
As men, some continue to try to weaponize women's cycles and sex lives in attempts to dismiss valid concerns and boundaries. In 2021, for the first time, I saw these same insecure men make assumptions about the reproductive status of women they had never met as another tool of humiliation to win meritless arguments.
The trading in Oct 2020 was lucrative, but it wasn't something i wanted to support. During this same period, three people I cared about in the U.S. were undergoing treatment for female reproductive cancers. When the illness took one of them, I knew I could no longer just watch. I needed to become the change I wanted to see for women. A year later, i returned with $250,000.
Although I made the comment in jest, I couldn't stop thinking about it. It struck me that the world is full of constructed phallics like steeples and skyscrapers, yet uteruses weren't celebrated. I decided to create an NFT collection of uteruses to fund a project to alleviate period poverty and eliminate reproductive health shame.
By partnering with food banks, shelters, and after-school programs, we ensured that people who needed these essential products could access them with dignity. We printed 10,000 copies of a comic book I wrote to destigmatize periods for girls, featuring a flip side to continue reproductive health education for the women who take care of them.
This felt like an enormous win for women; however, with the 2025 change in administration, federal health programs faced severe structural overhauls and budget cuts within the HHS that scaled back care. With these draconian regressions, female philanthropists have stepped up to cover the gaps financially, but the emotional impact on women and the scapegoating of women for the actions and failures of a growing subset of men has increased.
I hope visitors find it cathartic, enlightening, and impactful.
- Amy
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Share your experienceWe started our periods a few years ago and wanted to explain it to others because we want people to know that it's not something you need to be ashamed of.
← COVERThis volume houses the full layout graphic sequence of our original printed booklet designed to remove biological taboos cleanly for daughters and caretakers alike.
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Share your experienceWomen all over the world, in both developed and developing economies, are negatively affected by period poverty.
Half of those surveyed reported having to choose between buying food and menstrual supplies.
This forces them to purchase sanitary towels and tampons in smaller quantities and at highly inflated prices in neighborhood shops and gas stations.
This leads women to stay home or be completely distracted by a constant fear of leaks and accidents.
While some schools technically provide menstrual products free of charge through a school nurse or secretary, severe barriers remain.
There are approximately 16.9 million women in the United States living in poverty, and the inability to afford menstrual products is a significant part of their struggle. A widely cited study by Reuters Health found that one in five women have trouble affording menstrual products every month.
While an increasing number of states have begun funding free supplies in public schools, federal government safety-net programs like SNAP and WIC still entirely exclude menstrual products. Compounding this issue, low-income individuals are more likely to live in 'food deserts' without access to bulk buying.
Making basic hygiene even less accessible, 18 out of 50 states continue to charge a sales tax on these essential healthcare necessities. Not having the products necessary to go to school and work without worry causes severe shame and anxiety.
It also forces individuals to ration and use products for longer than is safe, which directly leads to dangerous health conditions such as urinary tract infections, bacterial vaginosis, and toxic shock syndrome (TSS).
Girls still face the exhausting challenge of not only having to get to school in the first place, but also overcoming the shame of admitting to an adult that they are menstruating and cannot afford the basic necessities.
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Share your experienceWomen are more likely to wait longer for a health diagnosis and to be told it’s ‘all in their heads’. That can be lethal: diagnostic errors cause 40,000-80,000 deaths in the US alone.” — BBC Future.
Biases are further held on the basis of weight, age, sexual orientation, and immigration status.
Additional studies into systemic racial bias found that Black patients are 22% less likely than white patients to receive any pain medication.
Yet, diagnostic hurdles remain pervasive: clinical reviews indicate that initial screenings and evaluations miss or delay early-stage breast cancer diagnoses in roughly 13% of cases.
It is easier when a medical problem is a fracture that can be seen and instantly confirmed with a fast X-ray.
The women featured in our slider with an asterisk next to their names died of cancer despite being financially well-off, holding advanced degrees, and possessing a proven willingness to speak up.
Currently, there is no comprehensive tracking on how many women permanently stop seeking care due to deep clinical shame, a lack of financial ability to pay, or an inability to miss work.
For centuries, women’s health issues have been reduced to “hysteria”—the idea that their symptoms are only imagined, related to their hormones, or an attempt to seek attention. On top of this inherent medical bias against women, additional biases are held on the basis of race, social class, and education level.
According to the landmark study Gender Disparity in Analgesic Treatment of Emergency Department Patients with Acute Abdominal Pain by Dr. Esther Chen et al., women were 13% to 25% less likely than men to receive opioid analgesia when they presented to the emergency room with similar symptoms.
This is a disparity that tragically persists even for children in acute pain. According to national health tracking data, 13% of women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, and about 9% of those diagnoses occur in women younger than 45.
Shame complicates this clinical gap. A national study commissioned by Thinx revealed that 58% of women reported being embarrassed just by having their periods, and nearly half (42%) had experienced explicit period-shaming. These feelings make women far less likely to confidently advocate for themselves.
When the issue is internal instead of visible—and deals with a bodily function that women have been taught is shameful, like menstruation—they are less likely to push back when a doctor dismisses them and says they are fine. This is not just a problem for women with lower incomes.
According to the book Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery, women facing complex autoimmune or reproductive conditions are far more likely than men to wait an average of 10 months and endure 5 or more separate doctor visits before finally receiving an accurate diagnosis. This wait time is even greater for low-income individuals.
Overall, updated data reveals that a staggering 371,000 deaths occur in the U.S. each year due to diagnostic errors. Those numbers represent children being raised without parents, families shattered, and vital women missing from our communities and workforce. For the women who do survive, they face tremendous medical debt.
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Share your experienceTo scale these frameworks continuously, we coordinate direct logistics supplying clean, medical-grade menstrual discs instead of traditional cups across sensitive zones.
Supply Menstrual DiscsThank you for sharing your truth. We urge you to continue reviewing our dynamic multi-generational flipbooks and exploring notes left by women down the expanse.