Savannah – Armstrong students gathered handfuls of free period products at the Period Pride Picnic, an event aimed to erase stigmas around menstruation. 

The Office of Student Wellness and Health Promotion and University Housing held the event to kick off Women’s History Month. The offices collaborated to offer a variety of items including period underwear, reusable pads, menstrual cups and tampons among other items.

Each table offered information regarding the menstrual cycle and free supplies. They also offered free food, bizarre “would you rather” questions and more insights into their particular offices.

“I love the blatant exposure out here, because a lot of times, this has been, like, stigmatized as something we shouldn’t talk about. Especially in public,” Denelia Nisbeth said.

Nisbeth is one of many students who attended the event and left with more items than they could carry.

“We like to show them that it’s okay, like it’s a natural human process, culture, that kind of thing,” said Jessica Paul, graduate assistant for the Dean of Students office. 

She represented the Captain’s Cupboard campus food pantry and the period pantry that offers free products around campus.

Nisbeth believes in further erasing the tension around menstruation.

“They’re not out of this world. We are currently experiencing periods, abortions, everything. These are norms. These are norms to us as women. These are norms to us as anybody who doesn’t identify as women.”