YaleBleeds

Our Mission:

Open up the conversation about periods in the community to highlight a spectrum of period experiences. We are also want engage with members of the New Haven community and try to provide for their needs related to menstrual health and hygiene.

Our Activities:

Community Fridge Partnership
Direct Service
Contribute menstrual products to the Dwight Community Fridge project.

Teach for Splash at Yale
Direct Service
YaleBleeds members will teach a class for the Splash at Yale program. Middle and high schoolers come to campus to take a class that students teach. YaleBleeds will teach about menstruation and menstrual equity in general.

Period Packing Parties
Direct Service
We will host packing parties to pack menstrual products into bags that cover one menstrual cycle and then donate them to shelters in need of menstrual products. We hope to collaborate with different organizations on campus, including Yale Undergraduate Prison Project's Reproductive Justice Initiative group, Yale PINK, and others.

Period Packing Parties
Direct Service
Around once a month, we will host an event where YaleBleeds members and members of the greater Yale community come together to create period packs from our period product supply to donate to Loaves and Fishes.

Loaves and Fishes
Direct Service
Monthly donations of period packs to local shelter.

Sustainable Menstrual Products Workshop
Advocacy, or Activism
In collaboration with GREEN, Yale Women's Center, and other sustainability groups on campus, we will host a workshop teaching attendees how to use a menstrual cup. Menstrual cups will be provided for free to attendees, along with free pizza and a raffle for Victoria Secret's/PINK's period underwear.

Advocate for Free Menstrual Products with Yale College Council
Advocacy, or Activism
We will work with the Yale College Council to implement their proposal for putting free menstrual products and safe sex supplies in each residential college.

Fundraisers
Fundraising
Engage Yale community to raise funds for or direct donation of period products and encourage participation in creating period packs to expand access to menstrual products to menstruators in need.

GREEN Collaboration
Fundraising
This involves the intersection of sustainability and menstrual equity: we will work with GREEN to increase access to sustainable menstrual products and education about sustainable menstrual products.

Fundraising
Fundraising
This is just general fundraising throughout the semester. We may do bake sales, donations, raffles for giveaways, etc.

Roe Commemoration Event
Fundraising
We hope to have an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. We would like to have a panel of speakers involved with reproductive justice and along with fundraising for local organizing groups.

Student Leaders:

Karley Yung - Coordinator/President