A PCOS Q&A with Michelle Cooke
We chat to reproductive wellness expert, Michelle Cooke on PCO and PCOS - just in time for PCOS awareness month. Diagnosis, management and myths. It's all here!
Save The Vagina Museum by Bidding on Bits
A silent auction has opened featuring 60 incredible artworks to save London's Vagina Museum, and it's vagtastic.
Let's Talk About PMS and Why It Doesn’t Have To Be Inevitable
We're talking PMS with Anushka and Lily of Bare Health Studio, because anything with physical and emotional symptoms that's experienced by millions once a month deserves attention. We're breaking it down, so the decision on whether you need to chat to someone about managing your symptoms might feel a little clearer.
Know Your Flow with Claire Baker
Friend of Tsuno and all round period positive life guru Claire Baker recently published a very good book full of things. We love it, we sell it and we're even giving a copy away (hint: follow us on social media)
Your Questions Answered by Professor Beverley Vollenhoven on Fertility & IVF
After realising we had a few questions of our own about fertility and what your period has to hint at it, we thought we would take to Instagram and see if our Tsuno community had any too, which you did! We then got in touch with the vital team at Monash IVF who very kindly offered the expertise of Professor Beverley Vollenhoven.
Five Fast Facts on your Menstrual Cycle + All the Multitasking Going On
Had you thought about your ovaries speaking to your brain?! What about your hormones being the grand connector? Well while they’re all chatting away, we thought we would take some time to dive a little deeper by putting together five fast facts.
Meet our Featured Designer Peppermint Magazine Founder Kelley Sheenan
To celebrate our latest tampon box design, we caught up with illustrator and Peppermint Magazine founder and editor Kelley Sheenan in lockdown who highlights the importance of community, shuts down period shame and stigma and talks rainbows of hope - because we love those rainbows.
Guest Blog by Bare Health Studio: Eating for Healthy Hormones
Hormone loving recipes and eating for optimum health with Lily and Anushka of Bare Health Studio.
A Q&A with Jessica Taylor from QENDO
Meet Jessica. The President of QENDO, an organisation that exists to support anyone affected by endometriosis. Learn about Jessica's journey with endo and how QENDO is providing such important support and education.
A Q&A with Dr Kate Young for Endo March
During a chilly morning in a (very cold) warehouse I was renting at the time, Kate told me all about the research she'd just embarked on, and subsequently, because it was the first time I'd heard of Endometriosis, she told me about the disease that can impact 1 in 10 women around the world. We thought it was time to chat endo again!
Meet our Featured Designer Shuh Lee
The way our collaboration with Shuh Lee came into fruition is emblematic of how supportive the creative community in Melbourne is. Shuh first met Roz at Finders Keepers in 2017 before deciding to work together on the overnight pad box design. Shuh is an incredible multi-disciplinary artist, working with jewellery to illustration, creating window installations as well as bedding and scarves! At the centre of her practice is the belief that art is about sharing and learning from the community around you- we love that.
Meet our Featured Designer Lori Camarata
Why is funding girls education (and/or helping to end period shame) important to you?
I have been lucky enough to always have access to education and support which has given me the opportunity for a great quality of life and growth as a person, so I think it’s so important for easy access to education to be available to everyone regardless of gender. Which for me, ties into ending the shame and stigma around periods and the accessibility to period products, which can negatively impact lives and interfere with girls and womxns education, employment and health.
Now let’s get personal, when did you get your first period, and how was it?
I got my period exactly one month and one day after my 13th birthday, lucky I remember the exact date so I can celebrate my period birthday! It was kind of exciting as I was one of the last girls to get their period in my friendship group. I grew up in a family that was pretty open with talking about periods, and went to an all girls school so was surrounded by a lot of information and felt somewhat prepared for it.
What do you hope that your collaboration with TSUNO will do?
I hope my collaboration will spread the word about TSUNO and the work they do to more people! I’m also really grateful to be able to contribute to a brand that helps so many people, with donating to places like One Girl and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.
What do you wish you knew about periods earlier?
I wish I had known that people experience periods differently and that different bodily functions are nothing to be embarrassed about!!
Do you have a period nickname / period pun you use in your house?
I’m usually not subtle when talking about my period so maybe something like ‘I’m bleeding out of my vagina’ :D
nudes/blacks for sure!
Finally, can you hand draw for us your favourite undies or knickers and explain why they are so good?
