Voices Blog - Women's Voices for the Earth

Interview with Bria Gadsden of Love Your Menses

23 Oct 2020

Environmenstrual week is an annual event created by our friends at Wen to help amplify the conversation around safer, reusable and plastic-free period products; break the taboo around periods and show you are period proud; and end period poverty, help ensure everyone has access to healthy & plastic-free period products....

We Need to Talk About the Term ‘Feminine Hygiene’

21 Oct 2020

Using language that infers that only women and girls have periods can be incredibly dangerous because it excludes the voices of many people who menstruate from important decisions and conversations about their health.

Period Health News – Oct 2020

20 Oct 2020

This month in Period Health we're celebrating Environmenstrual Week! Plus, growing concerns over period poverty during COVID-19, Facebook bans an ad for showing red menstrual blood, new period stories and more!

6 Reasons Why Disinfectant Foggers, Misters, Electrostatic Sprayers Are Not the Answer to Safer Spaces

13 Oct 2020

Foggers, misters and electrostatic sprayers are not the solutions we need to protect health and reduce illness -- rather they seem to do little more than increase exposure to harmful chemicals.

California Bans Formaldehyde from Cosmetics + 23 other toxic chemicals!

08 Oct 2020

AB 2762 bans the use of a number of toxic chemicals in cosmetics and professional salon products by 2025, including the carcinogen formaldehyde.

Good News Coming Out of California for Cosmetic Safety

05 Oct 2020

Last week, two bills were signed into law in California that will make cosmetics safer AND increase disclosure of ingredients in fragrance.

PRESS STATEMENT: Women’s Voices for the Earth’s Statement on the Passing of California’s AB 1989, Period Product Ingredient Disclosure Bill

30 Sep 2020

UPDATE (September 30, 2020): Today, Governor Newsom signed California bill AB 1989 into law. Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE) remains concerned about the barriers this bill continues to create in regards to vital ingredient information necessary to protect public health, and the role corporate influence played in restricting transparency and...

VOTE

24 Sep 2020

We will be remembered for standing up for our health, our communities, our planet and the most overburdened and underserved among us. Vote like our lives and liberties depend on it. Because they most certainly do. Vote.