Arkansas Period Poverty Project

  Activists Mobilize in Little Rock, Arkansas to End Period Poverty, Rally Toward Arkansas Period Action Day Little Rock — Sept 27, 2022 — The Arkansas Period Poverty Project will host a rally at the Arkansas State Capitol on October 22, 2022 at 1 pm. The rally will mark a single day of organized effort to demand legislators address the lack of period products in schools and end the taxation of period products. The Arkansas Period Poverty Project believes all menstruators deserve access to period products. Currently, 26 states in the US, including Arkansas, still have a sales tax on period products considering them luxury items, while products for men’s sexual health . such as Viagra, are considered essential goods. The average menstruator will spend an average of $11,000 in their lifetime on period products, and one in four menstruators struggled to afford period products in the last year, due to a lack of income. The most recent city- based study on period povert

 *Originally published on UCAnews.live* By Torrie Herrington A donation box for the period product drive sits under a table in Righteous Remedies. Photo by Torrie Herrington Reinvest in Conway is a local grassroots organization that advocates for social change. For the month of September, they have partnered with AR Period Poverty Project to supply the Conway community with essential menstruation products. AR Period Poverty Project is an organization that aims to create menstruation equity throughout the state of Arkansas. Stephanie Gray, co-founder and lead organizer with Reinvest in Conway said that the two organizations partnered because their goals align.  ”We were in talks with the Arkansas Coalition for Reproductive Justice over the summer and they informed us of the awesome work of the Period Poverty Project,” Gray said. “Their mission really aligns with ours in terms of intersectionality, mutual aid and body autonomy.” One of the main goals of Reinvest in Conway is to advocate