Period Magazine

21/08/2025

Your cycle affects... almost everything. Trouble sleeping just before or during your for example? You're not the only one. This is how your menstrual cycle affects your .

Just before and during the first days of your menstruation, you may experience sleeping difficulties. 5 Possible solutions if your cycle affects your sleep.

04/08/2025

Why Oh Why?
Well, do the math!
This is why your always get your period on holiday 😎

Suitcase packed? Got your e-ticket? Locked the back door? Ready to go? Then just read this advice for a cramp- and leakfree holiday.

28/07/2025

What’s the link between your menstrual cycle and your brain? More than you might think: your brain is, after all, controlled by hormones. Changes during your cycle are even visible on MRI scans. So, this is how your hormonal cycle affects your brain...
https://www.period.media/factsfigures/your-cycle-affects-your-brain/

What’s the link between your menstrual cycle and your brain? More than you might think: your brain is, after all, controlled by hormones.

17/07/2025

Menstrual activist Stella Schröter talks to Dutch artists Lucy Bink and Ella Suzanne about how art can crack open the stigmatising period narratives many of us have. 'Menstruation is so much more than biological, painful, or reproductive. It's a source of creative power. It is art.' You can find her article on Period! Magazine:
(Sketch: Stella Schröter)

Stella Schröter talks to Lucy Bink and Ella Suzanne about how art can crack open stigmatising period narratives. 'Menstruation is so much more than biological, painful, or reproductive. It's a source of creative power.'

08/07/2025

Summertime! On your period? Enjoy our tips.😎

And yes, of course you’re heavily menstruating exactly when your favourite festival starts. Nice...not. Take advantage of these festival survival tips.

01/07/2025

Lots of women will develop at some point in their lives. You don't have to notice them but fibroids can cause serious complaints, like heavy menstrual bleeding or severe pain. To put the spotlights on this underexposed condition, July is .

Lots of women will develop uterine fibroids at some point in their lives. To put the spotlights on this, July is Fibroid Awareness Month

28/04/2025

Discussing menstrual problems at your work. Easier said than done. Why should you do it? How to approach it? What holds women back? And how can we make it easier?
Five Dutch master's students from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands conducted research in collaboration with Period Media (publisher of Period! Magazine). These are their findings.
https://www.period.media/factsfigures/discussing-menstrual-problems-at-work-whats-stopping-you/

Master's students in Communication Science at VU Amsterdam investigated women's intention to discuss menstrual problems with their employers.

17/04/2025

Today is . This years edition focuses on equal access to care for and with bleeding disorders.

Heavy blood loss during your menstruation? It could be due to a bleeding disorder.

02/04/2025

Meanwhile on our planet... at least 500 million women and girls lack safe menstrual management facilities. More than 1.25 billion lack private toilets, while 526 million have no toilet access at all.

By and for international civil servants, UN Today brings to staff, diplomats, and the wider international Geneva community an introspective analysis of what affects our life and work in Geneva and how to make the best of it.

31/03/2025

REPOST! Because April is PMDD Awareness Month. While most people still aren't sure whatPMDD is, another term is emerging: . What are the differences between those two cycle-related conditions? Check out Period! Magazine: https://www.period.media/bodymind/pme-or-pmdd-spot-the-differences/

While most people still aren't sure what PMDD is, another term is emerging: PME. What are the differences between those two cycle-related conditions?

24/03/2025

Meanwhile in the UK... Aldi offers free period products in stores.

Aldi UK has taken a major step in tackling period poverty by becoming the first UK supermarket to provide free period products in both colleague and customer toilets —without the need for a loyalty scheme or codeword.

06/03/2025

REPOST. Haa’idh? During menstruating women have to adhere to specific rules. For starters: you are not allowed to fast. What does this mean in everyday life? (Photo by Irene Strong on Unsplash).