Period Power Stories: Reframe the Shame
From The TMI Project Story Hour by TMI Project
November 5, 2025 · 32 min · Season 8
About this episode
Kat and Divine discuss sex education and period poverty advocacy, while Xyajah shares her personal experience with her first period.
Period Power! Club members Kat and Divine talk sex education, chocolate cravings, and how advocating for period poverty awareness in high school helped set the course for advocacy in all areas of life. Xyajah shares her TMI Project monologue, where she speaks about getting her first period at just nine years old, feeling unprepared and unable to speak about it with her family.
People in this episode
Guests: Kat, Divine, Xyajah
Topics covered
- period power
- sex education
- advocacy
- period poverty
- personal stories
Keywords
- chocolate cravings
- high school
- TMI Project monologue
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