We need more menstruators to stand up to menstruation taboos and create a safer world for everyone.

"With stained pants, Kenyan senator fights menstruation taboo"

https://apnews.com/article/menstruation-period-stigma-kenya-senator-593fed49b6272d113f791e97db7e8144

Menstruation is not a business opportunity, but Big Tech disagrees.

Many period apps collect way more data than needed, some even selling it to advertisers - or worse.

Before tracking your cycle, ask: Who owns MY data? Who can see MY data? What can they do with MY data?

If the answer isn’t clear, they don’t deserve your trust.

Menstruators have been tracking their cycles long before apps existed.

Going old-school with a paper journal, a spreadsheet, or a color-coded calendar is NO solution. Anyone in your household has access to your data if they find your notes.

Your only option is to use a safe period tracker like the My Period Data Is Mine! tracker.

Your data stays with you, no third parties involved. Your data is yours!

Ever think about where your period data goes?

Many apps collect intimate details - moods, sex life, contraception - then sell it. Now imagine that info in the wrong hands.

A truly secure period tracker encrypts your data, keeps it offline, and protects you. Because tracking your cycle shouldn’t mean tracking you.

"Er is door het ICC een aanhoudingsbevel uitgevaardigd tegen premier #benjamimNetanyahu en alle 124 lidstaten hebben de plicht om samen te werken met het hof."
Met andere woorden: "Polen is verplicht om Netanyahu naar Den Haag te sturen als hij in hun land is." #period
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/artikel/5488865/kan-polen-arrestatiebevel-benjamin-netanyahu-van-het-icc-voor-herdenking

#PayingAttention. #Period.

#Menstrual #health and #hygiene (#MHH) are #absent from both the #MillenniumDevelopmentGoals and the #SustainableDevelopmentGoals, which have shaped #global and #national-level #policies for several decades. Why?

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Menstruation #Representation #Culture

https://contexts.org/articles/paying-attention-period/

We have read a lot of posts being concerned about #period apps and urging to delete them due to #privacy tracking issues under the awful new administration.

Here are two alternatives that don't track you:

https://dripapp.org/ @dripapp

https://eukiapp.com/ @baku1210 [baraag.net]

@defcon #mastodon #fediverse

Someone made a post lamenting the lack of open source, offline menstruation/period trackers, and I can't find if again.

There's 4 good choices on F-Droid at least!

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.nilsgrob.android.bluemoon/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.mensinator.app/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.log28/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.drip/

We all can and should keep our period data to ourselves. Nobody ever needs to know about it.

Otherwise, you could have an experience like Joanna in Kraków.

Let's stay safe and and support each other in moments of need.

I'll let you all know as soon as our fully encrypted period tracker which keeps your data on your phone, no shared data at all. It's for free too

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/dec/27/poland-abortion-laws-pani-joanna-activist

I don’t think the people I’m shagging will mind, and by day two of my period I’ll be so horny I could ingest a whole LAN party of men without blinking. But #period #sex is a less enticing experience to the sex I’d have on a standard week.

This time in 2022...

https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/getting-my-period/
https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/getting-my-period/

Rebuilding The First Digital Personal Computer - When thinking of the first PCs, most of us might imagine something like the Apple ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/08/16/rebuilding-the-first-digital-personal-computer/ #integratedcircuits #retrocomputing #period-correct #powersupply #transistors #recreation #kenbak-1 #pcb #ttl

#USpolitics #WomensRight #Period

My dear mother; wife; friend or daughter...
how comfortable are you talking about your periods with a man that is not your gynecologist ?

Well now, the Republican candidate for Vice President has his own ideas:

"JD Vance's Audacious Attack: Demands Kamala Harris 'Show Gratitude' to White Male Power?"
by Thom Hartman @ThomHartmann

https://hartmannreport.com/p/jd-vances-audacious-attack-demands-f35

Quotes:
"Vance is apparently offended that ungrateful American women like Kamala Harris demand not just birth control and abortion but also the right to divorce..."

"Blah bla misogynistic double talk.." and now for the important part:

"This is, after all, the JD Vance who, along with eight other Republican senators (including Ted Cruz), wrote to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra demanding that his proposed new rule preventing law enforcement agencies from forcing doctors to turn over women’s and girls’ menstrual and reproductive health records must be withdrawn “immediately.”

Every medical data should be extreme private between you and your doctor.
No one else. Not your insurance, not your boss and certainly not a politician !!!!!

12 wonderfully #queer #period #dramas to #watch after #Bridgerton – including #TippingTheVelvet.

Season three of Bridgerton further confirmed that #swooning #romanticism in #perioddramas is not exclusive to the #straights!

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TV #Representation #Culture

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/17/12-queer-lesbian-period-dramas-to-watch-after-bridgerton/