Period Equality, Menstruation Workplace Rights & Jewish Joy With Gabby Edlin

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Gabby Edlin, who is an activist campaigning to menstrual equity and the founder of the charity Bloody Good Period. Gabby discusses what led her to start Bloody Good Period, the work she does with the charity to provide asylum seekers with free and high quality period products, and her employment scheme that campaigns for period rights in workplaces. also TOPIC. Gabby and Hannah talk about why it’s important to be able to talk about your period openly, how things have changed in the last few years, and how transphobia has no place in the feminist and period-equality movement. and TOPIC. Finally, Gabby discusses how difficult it’s been to navigate charity and activist spaces as a Jewish person as well as the importance of Jewish joy and what that looks like for her.

CW: antisemitism and transphobia throughout, brief mention of domestic violence

✨MORE ABOUT GABBY EDLIN AND BLOODY GOOD PERIOD✨

Gabby Edlin, 35, is an activist campaigning for menstrual equity, and the founder and CEO of charity, Bloody Good Period. Gabby was named as one of the Evening Standard’s Progress 1000 Top Changemakers and Stylist’s Woman of the Week.

She started Bloody Good Period in 2016 when she was volunteering at the New London Synagogue asylum-seekers’ drop-in centre, and discovered that period supplies were only provided for ‘in emergencies’. A whip around for donations of pads or tampons on Facebook turned into a charity which distributes period supplies for asylum seekers, refugees and anyone who can’t afford them, all around the UK.

Bloody Good Period also provides menstrual, sexual and reproductive health education within those communities. These products and sessions are currently distributed through over 100 drop-in services and groups in London and the UK.

Gabby grew up in a Jewish community in Manchester and cites her Jewishness as a huge influence in her activism. She has a Masters in Applied Imagination from Central St Martins specialising in feminism and comedy. Before BGP, she worked in Arts Education for children and young people, and trained as an artist. She lives in North London.

- Bloody Good Period: https://www.bloodygoodperiod.com/
- BGP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodygoodperiod/
- Gabby’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabbyedlin/

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0:36.1	Hi everyone, welcome back to doing it, the Sex and Relationships podcast where sex has never been so nerdy with me, your host, Hannah Whitten.
0:44.9	This week, I'm joined by the incredible Gabby Edlin.
0:48.3	Gabby is an activist campaigning for menstrual equality and is the founder of the charity Bloody Good Period,
0:54.9	which provides period supplies for asylum seekers, refugees and anyone who can't afford them all
1:00.5	around the UK.
1:02.4	Bloody Good Period also provides menstrual, sexual and reproductive health education within
1:07.4	those communities, and for her work, Gabby was named as one of the
1:11.4	evening standards, Progress 1,000 top change makers and is a leading activist for menstruation,
1:17.9	equality and period policy change in the UK. I wanted to get Gabby onto the podcast to talk
1:24.4	all about her important work, but to also hear about what it's like
1:28.4	navigating activist spaces as a Jewish person. Gabby told me all about what led her to start
1:34.9	Bloody Good Period and the work she does with the charity to provide asylum seekers with free
1:39.7	and high quality period products. She talked about the employment scheme she set up with BGP
1:45.1	that campaigns for period rights in workplaces and works to prevent prejudice against employees
1:50.8	who experience the impact of menstruation. We discussed the importance of being able to talk
1:57.0	about your period honestly and openly here in the UK and whilst we still have a long way to go,
2:02.4	how much she thinks things have changed and improved in the last few years. We talked about the
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