Tuesday, 19 February 2019

This video game lets you throw tampons at ‘menstrual haters’ and I love it


We live in a world where periods are seen as something to be ashamed of, even though women have had them since the dawn of time. Many blame the menstruation taboo on a lack of general education, but “Tampon Run” is gamifying periods in a bid to normalize the most normal thing to happen to women. Created and built by teens Sophie Houser and Andrea Gonzalez during a Girls Who Code summer program in 2014, Tampon Run hopes to encourage discussion around the taboo in an accessible and approachable way. How to play Tampon Run looks like something from Super Mario…

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http://bit.ly/2Ix9pPk Cara Curtis February 19, 2019 at 09:01AM

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