Free The Period
So break time, canteen, blood covered tracksuit bottoms and a lot of tampons what could possibly go wrong?
The amount of people that felt uncomfortable with the notion of t
tampons was rather amusing an made the protest all the more entertaining. We started off just standing in the places we agreed in the canteen but decided this wasn't productive enough so we ended up walking around intervening with everyone and discussing the topic of tampon tax with them. I think we successfully made people both men and women aware of the issues concerning tampon tax. The graphically designed cupcakes were a winner with everyone, no one particularly wanted to buy one and for some odd reason people started to give money as a "donation" which was rather interesting.....
By having conversations with people of a variety of genders and ages it was fascinating to see their response - when I approached people their first response was "yeah she looks normal", they looked down to the tampons in my jewellery case and went "oh my goodness this girl is mental" - for some they walked away from one look at me and for others people just were like "yeah...this girl has some good points and now I am going to walk away slowly and continue on with my day".
By doing this protest I have been enlightened about protests and what I could do for next time, probably make the protest more interactive and and to have more of a slap and tickle - just to make sure that it sticks.
The political protest was one that we did in depth research about
This article was something that took my eye - 'MPs reject "tampon tax" in commons vote' and it made our group just so enraged to do something! And we did!
When I was going round to people selling the luxurious items of tampons I used a couple of references from Russell Howard's Good News - by using some comedy element to the protest it created this funny illusion that some people already had heard and could relate back to again.
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| Tampon Cakes ... wanna try? Such a simple recipe. |
All in all I think that the protest was a successful one - our research was done well and we put it into practice and I hope that people are going home to their families and friends discussing Tampons over the dinner table.
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