Fighting for Menstrual Equity in Canada

A key part to menstrual equity is raising public awareness around menstruation and advocating for policy change at all levels of government.

Advocacy is a core pillar of our work. The work goes beyond delivering period products to people impacted by poverty and advocate for long lasting
changes for generations to come.


Our Advocacy Goals

Free period products in every washroom across Canada.

Advocacy - free period products | The Period Purse
All genders receive education about healthy menstruation.
education about healthy periods | The Period Purse

Reduce period stigma.

Reduce period stigma | The Period Purse

Our Latest Menstrual Equity Advocacy Wins

On May 28, 2024

70 monuments were lit up in red
for Menstrual Health Day.

In June 2023, The Period Purse™ spoke as an expert in Ottawa to the Women and Equity Standing Committee about Menstrual Equity and what that should look like next for our country. Read more.


The Period Purse™ advocates help the city of Mississauga to get free period products in all city buildings. Read more.


The Period Purse™ sat on the expert roundtable consulting the Canadian Federal Government that all federal offices supply free emergency menstrual supplies in May 2019. Read more.


The Period Purse™ worked with (then) City Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam to get the City of Toronto to allocate $366,000 in their 2019 budget to provide all shelters and drop in centres with free menstrual period products. Read more.

Menstrual Equity discussed in the House of Commons in 2019 led by MP Arif Virani, detailing The Period Purse™ and our advocacy work. Read more.

In June 2023, The Period Purse spoke as an expert in Ottawa to the Women and Equity Standing Committee about Menstrual Equity and what that should look like next for our country. Read more.


The Period Purse 
advocates help the city of Mississauga to get free period products in all city buildings. Read more.


The Period Purse sat on the expert roundtable 
consulting the Canadian Federal Government that all federal offices supply free emergency menstrual supplies in May 2019. Read more.


The Period Purse worked with (then) City Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam to get the City of Toronto to allocate $366,000 in their 2019 budget to provide all shelters and drop in centres with free menstrual period products. Read more.

Menstrual Equity discussed in the House of Commons in 2019 led by MP Arif Virani, detailing The Period Purse and our advocacy work. Read more.

Additional Resources

We respectfully acknowledge the land we live and work on is the traditional territory of many nations including the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinabewaki, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Mississauga, and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.