Within the past year, 11.3 million U.S. citizens could not afford menstrual products, often being forced to choose between products and food. Lynette Medley has counted herself among those millions, having lived in period poverty herself.
The walls are a boisterous pink and adorned with crocheted uteruses. The shelves are stacked with boxes of menstrual pads, tampons, and menstrual cups. Across from me sits a woman wearing a sequined headband fitted with Mickey Mouse ears and sunglasses that rival those from Elton John’s collection. The woman’s name is Lynette Medley, and she is the founder and CEO of, a nonprofit organization through which she has opened up the nation’s first menstrual hub and uterine wellness center.
The SPOT donates 63,000 menstrual hygiene products per week, totaling over 17 million distributed products since The SPOT was founded. The organization receives these products through private donations and partnerships with popular feminine hygiene brands, such as Always, Diva, and Kotex. Every person they serve receives a six-month supply of products for themselves and every member of their family who has a period.
The SPOT even has connections with local hospitals to allow nurses and medical students to conduct menstrual risk assessments and engage with community members. Medley hopes the rotations will level the power dynamics between the residents of her community, who are mostly low-income Black people, and health care providers; community members often mistrust health professionals, and health professionals often lack experience working with her community.
While many organizations struggle with the white savior complex — the belief that white people know what is best for communities of color, and only they have the skills and power to “fix” the communities’ problems —No More Secrets is rooted in the community it serves. When organizations don’t intimately understand the communities they serve, they give them what they.
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