Cool Stuff
An archive of all the coolest stuff I’ve done over the years.
Panelists at the EY Social Founders Summer Forum 2024 - "How to Build a Positive Culture"
2024: Honoured to win the Outstanding Social and Civic Contribution Award 2024 from Newcastle University
2024: Speaking at Yahoo! with The Women in Programmatic Network International Women's Day Event
2023: Panellists for Leeds International Festival of Ideas
2023: Leeds International Festival of Ideas
2023: Bloody Good Employers winning the NatWest SE100 Award for Equality
2022: Ben Shephard wrote a very nice chapter about me in his book, Humble Heroes.
2022: Me and BGP - in the permanent exhibition at the Manchester Jewish Museum
2021: Filming with Giovanna Fletcher for Steph's Packed Lunch on Channel 4
2021: I don't know how to say this really... there is a donut named after me?! And they're delicious! Thank you Female Glaze!
2021: With headliner, Sue Perkins at Bloody Funny, the annual comedy night I founded
2021: BGP hung a giant glittery tampon in the British Library. Period Normalisation Level 5 complete. Glampon By Sam Dawood for BGP
2021: With the Queen of Menstrual Equity, Jennifer Weiss-Wolff
2021: Filming for the British Library's Unfinished Business exhibition
2020: Chairing a panel on Activism at WOW
2020: Stylist
2020: Stylist
2020: Stylist
2020: Front cover of Third Sector Magazine
2019-20: Karen Hobbs and me presenting radio show, 'Nice to be Asked' at Foundation FM
2020: With the Palmer Harding boys
2019: Interviewing Jordan Stephens for Stay in the Room (with Bobbie Cousins and Jeremy Newton)
2020: Shoot with Palmer Harding
2018: "Bloody Laundry" Campaign outside Houses of Parliament. Raising awareness of the fact that asylum seekers cannot even afford period products with the tiny amount of cash they're given (and they're not allowed to work.)
2018: "Bloody Laundry" Campaign
2018: At the Evening Standard's Progress 1000: London's most influential people.
2018: Clarence House with Women of the World
2018: Photoshoot for Evening Standard's Progress 1000: London's most influential people. Featuring me as one of The Changemakers.
2018: At the Evening Standard's Progress 1000: London's most influential people. Featuring me as one of The Changemakers.
2018: Woman's Hour - Discussing menstrual cups along with Mandu Reid
2019: Partnership with Liberty
2019: Partnership with Liberty London - with Cariad Lloyd and Amika George
2019: Panel at Liberty London
2019: 10,000 packs of period products collected by The Body Shop staff!
2022: Panel at Adidas
2022: Panel at Adidas
2019: Presenting Stay in the Room Live at Kings Place with Nish Kumar and Bobbie Cousins
2019: Making one of the UK's favourite comedians laugh...
2019: Dahens Nyheter Magazine
2019: Dagens Nheyeter - honestly they could've said anything about us but they were very complimentary (if Google Translate is to be believed)
2018: Recording at Amazon Audible for Maisie Hill's Period Power
2019: "Bloody Good Period: A Human Right" Premiere in partnership with Everyman and Facebook
2019: Premiere Panel with Edith Bowman
2019: Published Essay in Scarlett Curtis' "It's Not Okay to Feel Blue"
2019: OK so one afternoon the Hendon Co-op called me and said we've got a giant cheque for you and we've already booked press so can you come in TODAY and they were so persuasive (and lovely) that I did.
2019: Sky News
2018: Cosplaying Bruce Springsteen / Modelling for Birdsong
2018: Vogue
Free Periods Protest with Richard Curtis
2018: Free Periods Protest with Sara Pascoe, Lou Sanders, Adwoa Aboah, Richard Curtis, Martin Sheen, Aisling Bea, Cariad Lloyd and Amika George
2018: Speaking at the Free Periods Protest
2018: The Very First Bloody Funny
2017: Winning the WOW Den Competition
2018: "Bloody Activist" Documentary by Milo Fims
2018: "Bloody Activist" Film Poster by Hazel Mead
2018: The Bloody Activist documentary premiere at Warner Bros Soho
2017: The giant pad Bobbie Cousins and I made
2017: Filming for Bloody Activist
2017: The campaign that led to Always, Bodyform and Tampax using red liquid instead of blue, in their ads.
2017: One of my very first speaking gigs to a bloody massive audience at The Quarter Club
2017: Baby's first photoshoot (and first ever press) for Buzzfeed News
2017: Some of BGP's first volunteers
2016: The first ever BGP tote bag, handmade by a wonderful woman off Twitter
2017: Back in the day, we used to do collections outside Boots
2016: One of BGP's first ever posts
2016: That time my friend Ryan made me BGP memes
2016: The very very beginnings of BGP (aka. the coat cupboard in my flat)
2015: Before I channelled all my energy into BGP, I used to make (and sell) anti-valentines cards
2016: A very flattering portrait of me by one of the kids I used to nanny. Just to balance things out.
Wow, mazel tov (congrats!) for making it this far!
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Awards, Academics, Ambassadorships + Appointments
2006: Foundation Art - Visual Communications, Leeds College of Art + Design
2010: BA (Hons) English Literature, Fine Art + History of Art, Newcastle University
2014: Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence, UAL
2015: MA Applied Imagination in the Creative Industries (Design Studies), Distinction, Central St Martins, UAL
2016: Founded Bloody Good Period
2018: The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2018’ Top Changemakers, Evening Standard
2019: ‘100 trailblazers redefining the creative industry’ by The Dots
2019: Co-founded Bloody Good Employers
2019: Co-convened the Government Equalities Office Period Poverty Taskforce
2021: Entered into Who’s Who Book
2021: Top 50 ‘Trailblazers in Gender Equality’, We Are The City
2022: Stepped down from CEO of Bloody Good Period and Bloody Good Employers
2022: Went freelance
2023: Ambassador for Huckletree
2023: Society Ambassador for The Female Lead
2023: Trustee for Clore Social Leadership
2023: Natwest SE100 “Equality” Award for Bloody Good Employers
2024: Outstanding Social and Civic Contribution Award 2024, Newcastle University
I don’t do a huge amount of press these days, but here you can find pretty much anything I ever did, said or wrote about Bloody Good Period + Bloody Good Employers. Oh, and a bit of my own creative content too.
Press, TV, Radio
Third Sector Magazine (Cover), TS, TS
Writing
Current Writing
Past Writing
Glamour: Trans Inclusion; Antisemitism
Metro UK: Covid and Periods; Period Poverty
The Sunday Times: In the Flo Book Review
Third Sector Conference: “Abandon Racist Power Plays”, Keynote Speaker
It’s Not OK to Feel Blue by Scarlett Curtis (Essay Contribution)
Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon by Rosie Day (Essay Contribution)
How do we talk about… series for Moving Ahead
Books Interviewed or Featured in:
Humble Heroes, Ben Shephard
Side Hustle in Progress, Elizabeth Ogabi
Make it Happen, Amika George
Period, Natalie Byrne
Period Queen, Lucy Peaches
Period Power, Maisie Hill
Podcasts
Creator/Writer
Anthems by Broccoli (2021)
Stay in The Room - Nish Kumar Live at Kings Place (2019)
Stay in the Room - Jordan Stephens (2019)
Guest
The Power to Make Change (2023)
Founders for Good (2023)
Doing It! With Hannah Witton (2022)
Astrid & Miyu (2020)
Wanna Be (Content is Queen) (2020)
Good Charity, Bad Charity (2020)
In Hysterics (2020)
Protein Studios (2019)
Wobble (2019)
Smashing the Ceiling (2019)
Standard Issue Podcast (2018)
Badass Women’s Hour (2018)
Documentaries about me
Bloody Activist, Milo Films, 2018
Bloody Good Period: A Human Right, TCO, Facebook, 2018
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