Some good news, for a change: starting yesterday, students at 25 Bronx and Queens middle schools and high schools now have access to free tampons and sanitary pads.

Women have been having periods for as long as there have been people, so it's ridiculous that even in 2016 it's still met with embarrassment or hushed tones. Well, one female content creator is hoping to help change all that with her new webseries, Period Piece.

A Quartz piece by Olivia Goldhill titled "Period pain can be 'as bad as a heart attack.' So why aren't we researching how to treat it?" brought up the importance of talking about period pain. While periods are often censored and seen as something offensive to be hidden from view, Goldhill emphasizes a need end the squeamishness around the conversation when so many people suffer through it.

Quelle surprise! Yesterday, an all-male committee of Utah lawmakers voted 8-3 against removing the sales tax on tampons and pads. According to Al Jazeera, the taxation forum voted against the bill because "they want to make the tax system predictable, and subjective variations on what is or is not exempt could do just the opposite."

In this month's issue of Cosmopolitan, cover girl Jessica Alba talks about running her own business, The Honest Company, which she co-founded in 2011.

This study from Binghamton University revealed that most people who receive a text with a period placed at the end view said text as less sincere.

Thinx has been getting a lot of free advertising lately, thanks to all the media coverage about their supposedly controversial advertisements for period-friendly underwear. Vistar Media -- an ad company in charge of taxi video screen advertisements -- has rejected Thinx's underwear ads, claiming they "could be offensive to riders."

Charlie Edge, a 22-year-old woman, decided to go to Westminister with two friends last Friday and free-bled outside parliament as a form of nonviolent protest.

Thinx, the creators of those panties you can wear during your period if you're done with tampons, pads, and cups, recently proposed an advertising campaign for the New York City subway as part of their mission to break down "the taboo around menstruation."

Being a teen just got mildly less terrible for students at Queens' High School for Arts and Business, where New York City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland cut the metaphorical ribbon Tuesday on a dispenser offering free tampons and maxi pads.

Period delivery service HelloFlo is renowned for their charming and honest advertising, but this ad might be my favorite yet.

Ida Tin is the founder of Clue, a period and ovulation tracker that helps users monitor their cycle and better understand their own bodies. In an email interview, Tin took time out of her busy schedule to talk to us about being a woman in tech, taking charge of one's own health, and the benefits of using an app like Clue.

Apparently banning photos of female body hair wasn't quite enough for Instagram; continuing to be terrified and perplexed by the realities of the female body, Instagram has now banned several photos of a woman's period-stained sweatpants. How dare you show share photos of the miracle of life instead of your latte art!

Hollywood seems to have a difficult enough time understanding that young women are a real demographic that will pay money in exchange for movie tickets, so Cate Blanchett's knowledge bomb is going to blow their minds: women aren't actually set adrift on ice flows when they stop menstruating and may even still watch movies!

Last week we brought you the trailer for period subscription service HelloFlo's "Postpartum: the Musical," and now we're pleased to present the full video in all its unflinchingly honest glory. Enjoy!

We here at The Mary Sue are huge fans of period subscription service HelloFlo, so we're super excited to share this trailer for the company's upcoming campaign for new moms.

Good news, fans of political and body-positive projectiles: Tampon Run is coming to an Apple App store near you, and it has a sequel!