Diary of a Gen Z Student: No shame in menstruation. Period

Unfortunately for me and everyone else in my life, I’m just a little more feral during those desperate few days. One practice of mine that probably doesn’t help is that I refuse to keep track of my cycle or symptoms

Jane Cowan: 'You will never see me hide a tampon up my sleeve as I walk to the bathroom. Or catch me coughing to disguise the sound of a pad ripping open in a public toilet cubicle.'

Sometimes, I think about how certain things in life must be just so simple for men. There are the obvious things like safely walking alone at night, earning more at work, not pondering things like vaginal prolapse during late-night mental spirals.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying they don’t have their own obstacles. I certainly don’t envy the prospect of a receding hairline. But when I start throwing up as part of my monthly menstrual ritual, I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel like I pulled some sort of XX chromosome short straw.