We are pretty excited to be offering the pStyle as the latest addition to the Lunapads collection. The pStyle is an ingenius device which allows vagina owners to pee standing up. That’s right! Stand up and pee ladies, go ahead you know you’ve always wanted to. While you’re at it, here is a song for you to practice your “pStyle pose” to:
For more about the pStyle and why you should be excited about it see Sandra’s post here.
I’d like to take a moment to introduce you to one of our international retailers, Sandra Rocco of Mia Bambina. Sandra says:
I’m Sandra the runner and owner of Mia Bambina. We are a family of 4: me, my husband Nikolay, our daughter Indiana, and our baby Maya. I’ve always had a passion for breastfeeding and baby wearing, and now my newest passion is cloth diapering. I got inspired by all the WAHMs out there, and other online shops in Malaysia as well. Sometimes I found it difficult to go out with a young baby and look for useful and unique baby items, but more importantly to be affordable and also to find more selection of modern cloth diapers here in Malaysia - that’s why we started Mia Bambina!
Lunapads are sold worldwide but Sandra is the first to bring them to Malaysia. She is a stay at home mom and works hard to bring quality cloth diapers and pads to her loyal customers…we are lucky to have her on board!
She recently started a blog to go along with her website. To help encourage women to make the switch, she has a Lunapads give-away in honor of Chinese New Year! It’s only for women in Malaysia, but help spread the word about her shop and feel free to enter the contest if you’re eligible. To enter the contest you just have to write a little blurb about why you want to switch to cloth pads - one woman who calls herself ‘giddy tigress’ put a very cute little acronym that I thought I’d share with y’all…
And here’s why cloth menstrual pads are PERFECT for me:
P: pretty
E: environmentally-friendly
R: reusable
F: fun and funky designs
E: economical in the long run
C: comfortable
T: treats the body healthily
We couldn’t agree more!
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2009, Best Friends Animal Society is one of America’s foremost animal rescue organizations. Founded in 1984, Best Friends advances nationwide animal welfare initiatives by working with shelter and rescue groups around the country. On any given day Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, the nation’s largest facility for abused, abandoned and special needs companion animals located in southwestern Utah, is home to approximately 2,000 dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, birds, and other animals.
Click here to download People Got A Lotta Nerve, the first single from Neko Case’s forthcoming album Middle Cyclone. For every blog that reposts the song or iLike user who adds it to their profile, Neko Case and ANTI- will make a cash donation to Best Friends Animal Society.The promotion will run from January 13 to February 3, 2009. $5 will be donated for every blog post and $1 for every user of iLike that adds the song to their profile.
For those of you who follow the lunar calendar, to day is the first day of the lunar new year. Being Chinese, my family celebrates Chinese New Year , our most significant cultural holiday of the year, in several ways. Pictured is a small feast I prepared for my family, with food choices as symbolic gestures of good fortune and long life. Leading up to Chinese New Year we do a thorough cleaning of the house (and it usually needs it!) and on New Year’s Eve, the family gathers for a huge feast. We perform a small ceremony to honour our ancestors that includes some prayers, bowing and lighting of incence and joss paper (or spirit money). I’ve also established the tradition of bringing food on New Year’s Day to Lunapads to share some festive food with the Lunagals.
Did you know that the familar phrase gung hay faat choy literally translates to Congratuations and be Prosperous and not actually Happy New Year? I think we could all use some wishes of prosperity during these economic times.
If you are a fan of the Chinese Zodiac and astrology, today is the first day of the Year of the Ox. Those born in the year of the ox are dependable, calm, methodical, patient, hardworking, ambitious, conventional, steady, modest, logical, resolute, tenacious.
I’d love to hear about your cultural traditions and festivals!
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So I took my exam on Saturday and then we drove down to
Tuesday morning we were up at 3 am, at the metro station by 4, and in the city inside the press of people by 5:30. A little after 6 we were in the line to go through our designated security gate and by a little after 8 we were finally in our designated area (with access to port-a-potties.) Since it was a really, really heavy day I not only had my DivaCup, but a nice Long Lunapad with a wing liner and regular liner for back up. I did manage (without too much difficulty, really) to empty and reinsert my DivaCup when we first got into our designated area (it was full to overflowing by then) so I didn’t have to worry about it for the next several hours. We stood around with everyone else in the cold, cold morning; excited, happy, thrilled to be a part (no matter how small) of such a momentous occasion.
When the swearing-in and speeches were over (it was incredible to see so many people moved to tears, hugging each other and enjoying the moment completely) we started making our way back out of the city. This is where mass confusion took over since all of the organization that got us in and directed us to our designated areas was completely lacking; we left our standing area a little after 12 and eventually made it to union station (the metro station we had come in at was exit-only) by 3 pm. It was a LONG walk around the city, along a freeway tunnel, and (at the beginning) through an intersection completely packed with people who all had no idea where to go or what direction was the best way out of the city…everyone was (for the most part) friendly and recognized we were all in the same situation, but it was still a very long walk. By 3:30 we had managed to get on the red line at union station and, after two transfers of minimal difficulty, we were back to the station in
My daughter Gigi was in the office yesterday and it inspired a brief fantasy about what her reality might be like as an adult woman. Will we finally be done with the need for feminism? For the time being, we can only dream and keep working on it.
Speaking of people working for a better future for tomorrow’s women, I have long been a fan of New Moon Magazine and its associated blogs. New Moon’s mission (in their own words) is “to help girls, ages 8 to 15, discover their unique voices and express them in the world in ways that matter. We fulfill our mission by keeping girls at our center. Through active girl involvement and participation in all our business decisions, we provide respectful, creative, energetic and safe communities where girls explore, discover, create, grow and share their voices to make a positive difference in their lives and in the world.” Yay to that.
2 New Moon tidbits for you today: sorry for the late notice (contest closes January 19th), but it’s not too late to nominate your favorite (Inner) Beautiful Girl to be featured in the magazine. Here’s how.
Respect a girl today!
I don’t know about you, but I’m not exactly the world’s most confident public speaker. I can’t put my finger precisely on what freaks me out about it, but in a fit of personal growth intentionality I decided that one of my 2009 business resolutions was to take the Lunapads message further out into the world.
It will come as no surprise, then, in a recent “be careful what you wish for” moment, that I was invited by the Vancouver Women Business Owners Association to be the guest speaker at their upcoming meeting on January 21. Want to join me in feeling the fear and doing it anyway? Click here for more information or to register - it should be a fun evening!
Another online journalism website called “truthdig” has posted a story about reusable menstrual products. Written by Eunice Wong, it is a good piece with some useful references and links (but nothing new to us!) But what has got me going is the negative and insensitive “comments” posted by men who think that talking about our environmental footprint is a distraction from the “collosal waste of the phallic-industrial culture“. I can appreciate that men may not be interested in the subject because it doesn’t personally affect them, but can someone please tell me why men bother posting such comments?
Please join in on the discussion here. Better yet, get your men friends to post there as well; I know there are lots of supportive men out there. We’d also love to hear your stories about supportive guys. I know some of us (me included) who have asked our partners for help with removing a stubborn DivaCup! (Well, he actually gave good advice (“relax and wait 15 mintues”) and didn’t need to physically intervene!)
Wow. If you’re not already aware of this powerful campaign, please check it out. For all that I love grassroots initiatives such as Goods4Girls and others that we support, it’s nice to see some big money and big names stepping up to the plate. The central premise of the girl effect is that educating girls is the single most powerful change that can be made to improve the lives of everyone in developing nations. From curbing the spread of HIV to reducing government corruption and reducing the incidence of violence against women, look no further than helping girls stay in school to make it happen. Even one extra year of primary school attendance will result in a lifetime wage boost of 10 to 20 percent.Please check out their Facebook group and spread the word in whatever ways you can!
Dear Lunagals,
You could say I’m a really big Lunafan, and because I switched to cloth as a (belated) New Year’s Resolution, I thought I’d spend the last of my vacation after New Year’s writing about how cloth has changed my life. Because, really, it has.
Last fall, I developed a multitude of unexplained allergies, including to disposable pads. When researching the dermatological name for my type of reaction, I came across the Lunapads website. Despite some individual reports that their irritation was cured by cloth pads, my first reaction was complete and utter disgust. How could anyone re-use their pads? But, I didn’t have a whole lot of alternatives. In my 7 years of menstruation, I’d successfully used a tampon twice, and the other attempts were far from pleasant. It was at least worth investigating this new option.
The best arguments that helped me get over my initial reaction weren’t about the environment, or saving money, or becoming more comfortable with my period. They were very pragmatic:
First, I wasn’t very attached to disposables because they didn’t work very well; I had at least one leak each period, so I had to clean out my underwear in the sink anyway. How would cleaning cloth pads be any different from what I already did? I decided it couldn’t be all that bad.
Second, I read a number of testimonials that cloth pads don’t smell as bad as disposables. Wait, you mean it’s not my period that smells, but it’s the pads? Honestly, I was sold at this point. The mere chance that I wouldn’t have to endure that odor (or worry that anyone else could detect it) was worth the initial cost.
Third, no matter how hard I tried, I could not find anyone (on the whole Internet!) who went from disposables to cloth and then went back. No one said, “well that was a waste of money”, returned to their disposables, and wrote about it to warn others to not make the same mistake. Sure, there were some naysayers, but none of them admitted to having ever tried a cloth pad.
I bought my Intro Kit on this very day one year ago as part of a promise to take better care of myself, along with giving up processed foods and taking up yoga. When the pads arrived, I was surprised to find that, despite being about twice as thick as the disposable ultra-thins I was used to, they were far more comfortable because my very normal amounts of sweat could evaporate and they didn’t make that awful crinkling noise when I moved. I eagerly anticipated my period, and when I first tried out my pads, I was hooked. I did laundry 4 times during that first period on cloth to make sure that I always had a Lunapad to use. Although there were a few mishaps, the experience was overwhelmingly positive, and I did not even consider going back. (more…)
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