Our Story
About
The Oxford Period is a campaign for free periods at the University of Oxford, and against period poverty everywhere. Learn about our goals and hear all about how our campaign began from our two Co-Presidents Maia and Sofia:
How it all began:
The Oxford Period was created out of a chance meeting between us (Maia and Sofia) at a Gender Repcom in the SU, in late 2021. Through sharing our experiences with other women's and gender equality officers, we began to realise the great discrepancies between colleges in providing free and accessible period products. After creating survey to analyse the situation in each individual college and common room, and contacting The Cambridge Period Project, we decided to create a new society for Oxford. Since then we've grown our committee, built a team of college representatives, held events to destigmatise the conversation around periods, and begun our proposal to the university.
Our goals:
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Encouraging Oxford University to establish a long-term, adequate standard of period care provision across all colleges and departments.
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Hosting events and sharing resources in order to start an important conversation around menstruation and to raise awareness of period poverty
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Raising money for charities that are actively fighting period poverty
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Working together with other groups tackling period poverty to increase education surrounding menstruation
