At Skidmore, students may be coming to a campus with fewer period product services than their high schools had. The College must not only catch up to our public peer institutions in terms of menstrual product accessibility, but also be a leader in combatting the infrastructural inequities and gendered language that alienate transgender and non-binary people in similar programs at other schools.
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Skidmore’s Peer Health Educators (PHEs) and the Health Promotions director, Jennifer McDonald, have created a campaign to provide tampons and pads to all restrooms around campus. They have been offering free menstrual products out of the Student Wellness Center for several years, but were searching for a more accessible option.
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