Meet our Team

I began Amu4her because I remember being 11 years old and getting my first period. I vividly remember all the girls being secretly taken to a room during P.E. class to be taught what periods were. After the lesson, I felt embarrassed because it was clear that faculty was trying to keep this talk confidential from the boys with their hushed whispers. A few months later, my mother showed me how to use a pad since I got my period. I felt a sense of comfort and seen since I had someone who had experienced this before helping me.

However, when the time came to change my pad in the bathroom the next day at school, I felt a sense of embarrassment engulf me. What should have been completely normal, a girl changing her pad in a bathroom full of girls experiencing the very same thing, felt like something wrong. From then on, I tried my best to open my pads as quietly as possible in public bathrooms. I hope by normalizing periods, no young girl will ever have to open their pads in shame or fear of judgement again.