The Cycle Alliance Is a Gender-Inclusive Period Advocacy Program
The Cycle Alliance is a menstrual equity initiative geared towards teens that aims to destigmatize and de-gender conversations about menstruation; combat period poverty; and empower teens to advocate for social causes. Teens will participate in programs where they will learn how to advocate for menstrual equity; identify misinformation; and express their creativity through writing, drawing, or developing videos for the library’s teen blog and social media accounts.
Cycle Alliance Values:
- Menstrual equity is for for all who menstruate.
- Periods are a natural and biological event that are not shameful.
- Menstruators should have access to free or low-cost menstrual hygiene products.
- New York prisons, shelters, public middle and high schools should provide free period products.
- A mandatory, accurate, and up-to-date sex ed curriculum in schools that destigmatizes menstruation.
- Avoiding superstitious, offensive or hurtful language when talking about periods.
- To teach people who “just don’t get it" by using facts.
- Accepting that menstruation begins in childhood, and shouldn't be associate menstruation with becoming an adult or the ability to have babies because that unintentionally sexualizes a child who is neither physically or emotionally ready to think about sexual relationships or parenthood.
Resources:
- "All About Periods." Source: Nemours KidsHealth
- "Doctors Answer Commonly Googled Period Questions." Source: YouTube
- "People with Disabilities Have Periods Too, & We Need to Talk About That." Source: SheKnows
- "Period Poverty Resources at the Library." Source: Public Libraries Online
- "Understanding Your Menstrual Cycle." Source: Womenshealth.gov
- "The Launch Pad: Your go-to for Resources for Menstrual Equity Activism." Source: Period, the Menstrual Movement
- "Guidance for Providing Respectful Menstruation Related Care To TGNB Patient Populations." Source: Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
- The Pad Project, The Pad Project’s mission is to create and cultivate local and global partnerships to end period stigma and to empower women worldwide
BKLYN Incubator is supported by generous funding provided by The Charles H. Revson Foundation and Robin K. and Jay L. Lewis.
Upcoming Events
The Cycle Alliance's Period Pantry at Sunset Park!
Do you have a uterus or know somebody with one? Are you a teen who would like to learn more about or experiment with unfamiliar menstrual products? Stop by the Period Pantry at Sunset Park, and grab a care package, complete with a variety of menstrual hygiene products brought to you by community…
The Cycle Alliance's Period Pantry at Saratoga
Do you have a uterus or know somebody with one? Are you a teen who would like to learn more about or experiment with unfamiliar menstrual products? Stop by the Period Pantry at Saratoga, and grab a care package, complete with a variety of menstrual hygiene products brought to you by community…
NARS Animation Workshop
Please join us for the series of free workshops led by teaching artist Maya Perry at the Sunset Park Library. The Animation Workshop invites children ages 8-13 from the Sunset Park community and beyond to actively engage with the teaching artist to build a story through art and technology using…
The Cycle Alliance's Period Pantry at Brooklyn Heights!
If you are are a Teen in between the ages of 13 and 18, take a look at our period pantry located in the Game Room or ask someone at the front desk.
Our period pantry is in alliance with ‘Cycle Alliance’ here at Brooklyn Public Library.
Our pantry contains pads, tampons and both…
Bedford Teen Study Time
Hello Teens:
What a quiet place to do homework or study? Come to the Bedford Branch and join our Teen Study Time!
An hour to do your work, hope to see you there!!
Teen Tech Time
Do you consider yourself a gamer?
Are you passionate about the virtual worlds?
Come join us in the wonderful world of video games at the Arlington Library Branch!! Make new friends, create new rivals and have fun in the process!!
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Teen Time @ Midwood Library: Video & Board Games
Join us for Teen Time! We'll have video games, board games, and a warm, fun space to hang out! Snacks may be available or you can bring your own! Open to all teens ages 13-19.
Teen Time : Free Tutoring and Homework Help
Free Tutoring help:Higher Level Math - Grades 11 - 12English Writing and Comprehension - Grades 6 to 12General Homework Help, ALL subjects - Grades 6 to 12Test Prep for Regents, SHSP, SAT, etc.Sessions are held at the Park Slope Library in the Mezzanine.…
Staff Picks
- Ready, Steady, Flow
- Changing Bodies and Puberty
- Relationships and Sex Primer for Teens
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