My First Period? Bathroom Stalls in High School
It wasn't the worst, but it wasn't the best either!
My first period was definitely not expected. I was fourteen...
It wasn't the worst, but it wasn't the best either!
My first period was definitely not expected. I was fourteen...
All I could keep thinking was how this was not what I saw on the tampon commercials
I got my first period when I was 13 years...
The year was 2006. I was 11 years old. And as timing would have it, I was on vacation.
My family was driving through Cooperstown, New York, as my...
Did I just become a woman?
It was the fall of seventh grade when one night...
I got a new Summer Sister that year and for the next 40 years of my life
I was 12 years old, it must've been summer time...
As human beings, we're still working on understanding that periods are not shameful.
My relatives' house was buzzing with indistinct chatters and decorated...
And it was the night of my sister's senior prom (thankfully not mine).
As my sister was getting ready for her senior prom...
My 'American girl in Paris' did not go quite as I had planned it
It was on our school trip to France and I...
Depending on who you ask, I got my first period anywhere between the ages of 10 and 14.
I vividly remember being huddled in the girls' toilets at...