zeal (1).jpeg — What's your menstrual footprint?

Tara and Gina talk with Zeal Desai about periods, measuring our menstrual footprint with the Green Period calculator and sex on your period.

Zeal Desai is the co-founder of Green Periods, an initiative to create awareness around sustainable menstruation. She co-created the menstrual footprint calculator which quantifies the individual economic and ecological impact of menstruation.

As a reusable menstrual product user for the last 10 years and advocate for sustainability, she is passionate about learning and leading a healthy and meaningful life interconnected with nature. Zeal has a Bachelor of Arts from UT Austin, Master in Management from Duke University, and is a certified yoga instructor. She is an avid traveler, has lived in three continents, and speaks five languages.

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What We Cover:

1:30 laundry shame
6:13 Zeal and Green Periods
7:26 sustainability 101
10:10 period poverty
11:10 dispelling menstrual myths
11:40 let’s love our blood
14:00 Tara uses the Flo App to track her period and learn more about her body
14:49 Indian culture is all over the map (like the rest of the world) with taboo and also celebrations around menstruating. Periods are political. Period.
19:35 on average a menstruator has their period for 40 years
21:20 the menstrual product aisle at Target is evolving
22:23 out and proud with your tampon
22:50 bleeding as we speak
25:16 keep the story train going ...choo choo
26:00 period calculator from Green Periods
37:45 enter the menstrual cup
41:45 comparing period products
42:44 what does the ocean floor have to offer us for our periods?
45:12 menstrual intercourse
48:39 It’s all in the data