"All schools in New Zealand will offer free sanitary products to students starting in June, officials said Thursday. The initiative, which aims to combat period poverty, expands on a pilot program that launched last year.

In their announcement, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti said the program is open to all primary, intermediate, secondary and kura, or Maori-language immersion schools. Arden said that providing free period products at schools is one way for the government to help address poverty, increase school attendance and support students' well-being.

"Young people should not miss out on their education because of something that is a normal part of life for half the population," she said. "Removing barriers to healthy, active, educational outcomes for children and young people is an important part of the Government's Youth and Wellbeing Strategy."

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i used to be childfree bc i’m just not good with kids and rly don’t wanna use my limited resources on that.

now it’s also a political statement— fuck you, 1%, for expecting me to help create the next generation of busy little workers for you to exploit. i hope the baby bust makes you lose your goddamn minds

Republicans can't defend their complicity. They don't want to talk about their awful policies.

Anybody who says millennials are the most entitled generation has never managed a self checkout when someone over the age of 50 is ready to check 0ut

Cheating is the feature, not the flaw. Racism is the coded language used to evangelize.

Trump the Abuser knows the ways of the coward. 'Who me?', he gaslights.

The education system cares more about grooming individuals to work long hours at a job they hate instead of teaching valuable life skills

Senate Republicans are just a cog in the misogynist, white supremacist swamp machine. They know they must protect and impune whiteness and maleness above everything else.

A Black woman in Los Angeles who was beaten and pepper-sprayed this week by Trump supporters while her arms were held down said she is lucky to be alive.

Berlinda Nibo, 25, said she was walking past a “Stop the Steal” protest outside Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday during the attempted coup in Washington, DC, when a group of Trump supporters started asking who she voted for, saying “white lives matter,” and calling her the n-word. Nibo said she then flipped them off and told them to leave her alone and that they should be wearing masks.

big fuck you to every single person who said we were overreacting in 2016.