Feminists Organized to Resist Create and Empower (FORCE) is a student organization that has existed since the 1990s as an intersectional feminist organization dedicated to building a community that educates, advocates for, and empowers women, femme, trans, and nonbinary students. The FORCE Feminist Pharmacy is a sustainability and equity geared project that seeks to provide women, femme, trans, and nonbinary students with sustainable care products coupled with education on period poverty, taboos surrounding menstruation, and self-care.
Through this grant, FORCE will aim to lessen the environmental impact of the pharmacy by providing more sustainable alternatives to traditional menstrual products while offering more educational opportunities and strengthening new partnerships with organizations to open smaller satellite pharmacies.
The educational workshops will be hosted in the Cultural Resource Centers (AASA, APASA, GSC, NASA, DCC) and will focus on educating students about reusable period products (reusable cloth pads and menstrual discs) including how to use them and clean them, as well as addressing cultural taboos around menstruation. Workshops will be facilitated by local reproductive health expert Dora Martinez.
