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How to Make Your Period More Planet-Friendly

A hundred fossil fuel companies are responsible for 71 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change. Would you, a lone citizen, consider combating the environmental crisis by using the same silicone menstrual cup every month? I kid, I kid — but in all seriousness, that is what…

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How to Make Your Period More Planet-Friendly
How to Make Your Period More Planet-Friendly
Nadya Okamoto

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Nadya Okamoto Built a Community to Focus on Destigmatizing Periods

Yes, you read that right. People are coming together over the common bond of… monthly bleeding. It’s been a taboo subject for generations. But, says it shouldn’t be and she’s gone to great lengths to make sure anyone with a period has a safe space to talk about it, gain…

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Nadya Okamoto Built a Community to Focus on Destigmatizing Periods
Nadya Okamoto Built a Community to Focus on Destigmatizing Periods

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The business of normalizing taboo topics

From periods and acne to sex toys and toilet plungers, DTC brands are out to disrupt every eyebrow-raising industry under the sun. Make-up free with unkempt hair, influencers regularly appear on Peace Out’s TikTok page like they’re in the middle of their nighttime routine, putting on or removing a pimple…

Nadya Okamato

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Nadya Okamato

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A Feminist Menopause

The misogynistic period stigma considers menstruation to be an indicator for a woman’s UTILITY — labeling her sole purpose as being the ability to reproduce. Thus, menopause is then framed as when women LOSE that usefulness. They are useless. In a recent oped, Dr. Jen Gunter (Jennifer Gunter) explains, “The…

Menopause

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Menopause

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Jun 10, 2021

This Period-Care Brand Wants to Reimagine Periods to Be Powerful

Periods are a natural, healthy part of our monthly cycles, yet we’re often made to feel ashamed and embarrassed of them, even as grown adults. That’s always disturbed Nadya Okamoto, who, since 2014, has fought to destigmatize periods and end period poverty through her nonprofit, Period, where she led young…

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This Period-Care Brand Wants to Reimagine Periods to Be Powerful
This Period-Care Brand Wants to Reimagine Periods to Be Powerful

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May 28, 2021

3 Organizations to Support on World Menstrual Hygiene Day — aSweatLife

Today, May 28, is World Menstrual Hygiene Day. This day raises awareness about period poverty and stigma around the world and celebrates the progress that has been made. Period poverty is the inability to afford access to period products to maintain menstrual hygiene. I first learned about period poverty when…

Menstruation

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3 Organizations to Support on World Menstrual Hygiene Day — aSweatLife
3 Organizations to Support on World Menstrual Hygiene Day — aSweatLife
Menstruation

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May 17, 2021

Q&A With Samantha Rose Stein: Mental Health and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy

TW: Mental Health, Creativity, Well-Being, PTSD I was honored to sit down with Samantha Rose Stein from Wombkind — a community of over 200k+ people globally, using creativity as a well-being practice — to talk about all things mental health and about her experience with psychedelic-assisted therapy. Nadya: It’s so…

Psychedelics

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Psychedelics

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May 17, 2021

The Barriers and Myths surrounding Psychedelics with Jemie Sae Koo — Co-founder of Psychable

Jemie Sae Koo is the co-founder of Psychable, a “comprehensive online community connecting those who would like to legally explore the healing power of psychedelics with medically and peer-reviewed practitioners.” Now Jemie has devoted her career to building community and democratizing knowledge about psychedelics through her work at Psychable. Nadya…

Psychedelics

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The Barriers and Myths surrounding Psychedelics with Jemie Sae Koo — Co-founder of Psychable
The Barriers and Myths surrounding Psychedelics with Jemie Sae Koo — Co-founder of Psychable
Psychedelics

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May 14, 2021

5 Actions to Take During Mental Health Awareness Month — aSweatLife

I have major depressive disorder, complex PTSD, and was recently diagnosed with BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder). However, I don’t let these random acronyms define me. I know that they don’t encapsulate who I am — they’re just new vocabulary to help guide my treatment plans and explain the effects of…

Mental Health

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5 Actions to Take During Mental Health Awareness Month — aSweatLife
5 Actions to Take During Mental Health Awareness Month — aSweatLife
Mental Health

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May 10, 2021

Why Blair Imani Wears in Bold Makeup In Her Viral Videos

Over the last year, our country has witnessed a resurgence of the long-overdue fight for racial justice amidst battling a global pandemic. While we’ve been social distancing, many of us have been called to embark on necessary journeys of self-understanding and learning. This increase of people who are at-home-and-scrolling most…

Makeup

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Why Blair Imani Wears in Bold Makeup In Her Viral Videos
Why Blair Imani Wears in Bold Makeup In Her Viral Videos
Makeup

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Nadya Okamoto

Nadya Okamoto

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Nadya Okamoto is the co-Founder of August and author of PERIOD POWER. www.nadyaokamoto.com

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