Celebrating Moon Times - Eva Marie Carney

"Celebrating Moon Times: Flipping the Script on Period Poverty and Standard Puberty Education" is presented by Eva Marie Carney, Founder and Executive Director of The Kwek Society, a nonprofit that provides puberty education to Indigenous students and period care to Indigenous students and community members across the United States and Canada’s Ontario province. Eva Marie Carney gives an overview her work with The Kwek Society. She founded the nonprofit in 2018 after learning that Indigenous students in the United States were regularly missing school while on their “moon times” because they did not have period supplies. Informed by her work with schools and community-based organizations across North America, she discusses the reach and impact of “period poverty” -- or inadequate access to menstrual hygiene products. She also explains how The Kwek Society stresses “dignity and celebration” over feelings of shame and embarrassment in its work, reframing period care needs and empowering menstruators. The Network of the National Library of Medicine is funded by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. Learn more at https://nnlm.gov

Contact: Eva Marie Carney [e-mail]

Slides: https://lor.nnlm.gov/op/op.Download_Share.php?documentid=4706

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This webinar was originally presented February 15, 2023

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