Season 7, #106 "The Mensi Project"; Guest: Christy Ferguson

Michelle welcomes Christy Ferguson, professor at and founder of The Mensi Project at Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville to the podcast. It's an episode dedicated to Periods (and not the punctuation ones)! They talk about how Christy's grassroots project at SIU-E served as a catalyst for the state of Illinois making it a requirement that all public universities provide menstrual products in all bathrooms on campus. They talk about period poverty, period education, period access, period mis-information and more!If you want to get more involved in Christy's effort you can email her at [email protected] or drop by their facebook page The Mensi Project. If you are inspired to start something like this in your own community, please share with us how it's going and what you're doing.Thank you for listening and subscribing to Cliterally Speaking the Podcast. Visit our website: www.cliterallyspeakingpodcast.comFacebook: @cspeakpodcastInstagram: @cliterallyspeakingthepodcastTwitter: @cliterallyspea1Please call our comment line: 812-727-0794Watch our youtube channel (Cliterally Speaking the Podcast) for all the behind the scenes discussions during our recording sessions. Our Patreon site is up - visit it here - http://bit.ly/32uOnVT Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.