By Steven Monacelli On October 7, student activists at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) celebrated a victory over an opponent that is rarely discussed but is all too well known by some students on campus: period poverty. “Period poverty is essentially the concept that because menstrual products are way more expensive than they should be, people who are already struggling with paying for necessities like food will be choosing between wearing pads or tampons when they have their period and putting food on the table,” says Crista Thyvelikakath, a UTD student and organizer with the Period Project. The
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