a problem as old as Eve

Leona Chalmers, Mary Beatrice Kenner and more

Content warning: there will be blood! 

Leona Chalmers later featured in ads for her former company (image via The Museum of Menstruation and Women’s Health)

I told all the other girls in fifth grade I got my period in the Dillard’s dressing room. That sounded way more glamorous and grown-up then “I bled all over my pants at church and started crying and m…