Written by Intern Chelsea Gomez Imagine being told that safety is available if you are willing to leave behind the one constant source of comfort you have left. Emergency shelter is intended to provide protection, yet for many people experiencing homelessness, it comes with an impossibly devastating condition: abandoning a beloved companion animal or remaining unhoused. While it may be easy to dismiss the issue by arguing that those who are struggling should not have pets, th

Written by Intern Juliet Hayes. Period poverty—a lack of access to menstrual products—is foremost a result of menstrual products being commodities, i.e., not free. Period poverty is exacerbated by policy decisions, or the lack of, that cause inaccessibility to menstrual products because an individual is limited by financial constraints and/or there is a physical limit of products to purchase within reasonable distance. A February 2025 study by the Institute for Women’s Policy