Ask any Kenyan woman or girl about their experience with menstruation, and they will surely come back with a story. Or 10. In fact, @JanetMbugua wrote a whole book about it. While periods are still considered taboo in many circles, women and girls throughout the country are increasingly vocal about their monthly needs and preferences, especially with the products they use.
A few years ago, Kenyans took to social media to pioneer the viral #MyAlwaysExperience campaign, raising awareness about various side effects from common period products. In the years since, @WhiteRibbonAlliance’s #WhatWomenWant campaign has interviewed over 100,000 women across the country – thousands of whom have reported issues with the quality or availability of menstrual health products on the market.
And just this week, new research suggested that tampons may contain toxic chemicals – yet another reason for Kenyan women and girls to be skeptical of the products they rely on.
At Mosaic Health, it’s important that our solutions reflect the needs and interests of our users. As we prepare to roll out our Pamp’her “period packs, we’re surveying Kenyan women to learn more about their menstrual health product preferences and see what we can do to address them. Check out our survey here, and if you’re a woman in Kenya, please feel free to give us your input!
Now adding this site to a small mental group of recommendations I keep ready for specific kinds of inquiries, and a stop at focuspowersprogress extended the recommendation readiness, content that I can confidently point friends and colleagues toward in specific contexts is content with real social utility and this site has that utility clearly.
Top tier post, the kind that makes you want to share the link with friends working in the same area, and a stop at directionpowersvelocity only made me more confident in doing that, this site is one of the better resources I have seen on the topic recently across both new and older posts.
Bookmark added in three places to make sure I do not lose the link, and a look at conchclove got the same redundant treatment, sites I am afraid to lose are the rare keepers and this is clearly one of them based on what I have read so far across this and a couple of related posts.
Really grateful for content like this, it does not waste my time and it does not insult my intelligence either, and a quick look at growthflowsbychoice was the same, balanced respectful writing that makes a person feel welcome rather than rushed through pages of forced engagement just to keep clicking around.
Beyond the topic at hand this site reads as a small ongoing project of taking writing seriously, and a look at cotboil reinforced that project quality, sites that treat publishing as an ongoing serious practice rather than as content production for traffic are sites worth supporting and this one has clearly chosen the serious approach.
Thanks for not padding this with the usual filler intros and outros that every other blog seems to require, and a quick visit to cotchoice continued that lean approach across more posts, content stripped of waste is content that respects you and I will always come back to that kind of approach.
Sets a higher bar than most of what shows up in search results for this topic, and a look at cotcircle did not lower that bar at all, in fact it confirmed the impression, this is the kind of consistency that earns a place in regular rotation for serious readers instead of casual scrollers passing through.
Walked away in a slightly better mood than when I started reading, that says something about the writing, and a stop at craftcanal kept that going, content that leaves you feeling more capable rather than overwhelmed is the kind I keep coming back to again and again over the years and across many topics.
Found the section structure particularly thoughtful, and a stop at cryptbeach suggested the same care across the broader site, structural choices guide the reader through the material in ways most people do not consciously notice but feel the absence of when those choices are made carelessly or not at all.
Appreciated how the post felt complete without overstaying its welcome, and a stop at cryptbuilt confirmed that economical approach runs across the site, knowing when to stop is a skill many writers never develop but here the discipline is obvious and welcome from the perspective of a busy reader trying to learn things efficiently.
A piece that did not lecture even when it had clear positions, and a look at cubeasana maintained the same teaching without preaching tone, finding the line between informing and lecturing is hard and most sites land on the wrong side of it but this one has clearly figured out how to inform without becoming preachy.
Honestly impressed, did not expect to find this level of care on the topic, and a stop at darechip cemented the impression, you can tell within the first few paragraphs whether a site is going to be worth the time and this one delivered on that early promise nicely throughout the rest of what I read.
A piece that reads as if the writer trusted readers to fill in obvious gaps, and a look at dewcarve continued that respectful approach, content that does not over explain what the reader can infer is content that respects intelligence and this site has clearly chosen to write to capable readers rather than to the lowest common denominator.
A well calibrated piece that knew its scope and stayed inside it, and a look at dewchip maintained the same scope discipline, scope creep is one of the failure modes of long blog posts and this site has clearly invested in the editorial discipline to prevent it which shows up in tightly contained pieces.
Reading this in pieces over a coffee break and finding it consistently rewarding, and a stop at jalaxis extended that into related material I will return to later, the kind of site that fits naturally into small reading windows without requiring a long uninterrupted block is genuinely useful for how I actually browse.