Seventh Grade Students Made Tampon Cookies As A Protest To The Principal After He Refused To Make Tampons Available In The Bathrooms
Access to menstrual products should not be a privilege.
When a school principal says tampons do not belong in the bathrooms, students are bound to notice. In this case, a group of seventh graders decided the best response was not a speech or a petition, but cookies shaped like tampons.
The protest came after the principal refused to make menstrual products available in the bathrooms, saying they could be abused. The students pushed back on that logic in a very memorable way, and the whole thing quickly turned into a bigger conversation about access, dignity, and school policy.
Their sweet little protest ended up making a very serious point. Read on.
A genius (and delicious) form of protest.
This remains the most important question:
This is similar to someone refusing the office lunch fund because their dietary restrictions won’t let them eat.
Menstrual products are a right.
Maybe they can't afford them?
The principal was probably not a good guy.
An update was provided. It just goes to show that you CAN make a difference.
“After our cookie protest, our principal and the school board are now working to ensure that every girl in our town will have the products they need readily available so no girl misses a day of school. We are very grateful that the school has taken our action seriously and is making a change. Feminine hygiene is not a luxury or a privilege, and not having tampons and pads is a barrier to every girl’s education.Ours is a story of standing up with love and courage for our basic rights. Stand with us and work locally, nationally, and internationally to support the health and rights of all people. Check out Period.org or any of the hundreds of organizations working to ensure equal access to education for all.Your actions can and do make a difference. We know, because ours did. If tampon cookies can spark a revolution, then the possibilities are endless!Signed,The Revolutionary Girls’ Baking Society, baking a difference one bizarre confection at a time.”Want another workplace standoff, read about an employee refusing to share banana bread after a coworker keeps taking more.
