inspired by Indigenous red tent tradition, and ignited by a waking dream.

SHE SHEDS CRAMP OUT (SSCO) came to Deborah as a complete download, including the name of the organization, the body-diverse culture, the mission, vision, values, and goals. That very morning Deborah emailed Lindsey – “hey, this just came to me, what do you think?”. Lindsey replied, “go back to sleep and keep working on this idea”. By then, Deborah couldn’t sleep. She knew she was given a gift which needed to be developed, shared, and expanded. That’s when the SHED HEADS became a team: to empower, share, support and provide services for the 3.17 billion SHEDDERS on Mother Earth.

Meet Deborah and Lindsey: the founding board of SSCO.

Deborah Conner

Founding Leaders

Lindsey Shuford

Founding Leaders

Collectively, with the support of the generous gifts of time and funds, we see a future where:

  1. The UN declaration is realized.
  2. SHEDDERS are full partners in the world economy, with“creative flow days” (menstrual days) being taken off work as personally prescribed and honored by all.
  3. “Transition periods”, include onset of menses, gender, menopause, or pregnancy. These are seen as natural transition periods enhancing many personal attributes, such as creativity, intuition, compassion, life balance; all contributing to a healthier worldview.
  4. These transition periods are honored by all sectors of the economy (including business, government, health and human services, people services, the nonprofit sector, and education). The archaic view of SHEDDER life transitions being “disruptions to work”, and requiring “sick days”are part of human history we will gladly not repeat.
  5. SHEDDERS are provided free “creative flow resources” (pads, tampons, etc) by governments all over the world, which are free from harmful chemicals and which biodegrade, reducing production resources and waste.

Our Purpose

Our purpose is to SHED the shame, and SHED LIGHT on, the natural biological cycles of menstruation through to the completion of menopause. We aim to amplify inclusive voices who wish to expand beyond the current socio-cultural and material-world medical models. This will be realized through GO WITH THE FLOW SHED FEST educational conferences; SHE SHEDS CRAMP OUT sharing and caring events; WE SHED body diversity events; R.E.A.L. MAN SHED events (respecting, empathizing, advocating and listening); and SHEDDING LIGHT through public engagement.

SHEDDERS are::

  • encouraging and facilitating sharing through expanded access to experiential, anecdotal and ancestral resources;
  • providing leading-edge inclusive information, education and research;
  • expanding resources and healing modalities beyond the medical model currently dominating discourse and driving SHEDDER health decisions;
  • nurturing fertile ground: SHEDDERS have a platform to share their physical, spiritual, emotional and mental health cycles;
  • caring and supporting all SHEDDERS, including body diverse SHEDDERS;
  • improving services for SHEDDERS including access to free SHEDDING supports/materials;
  • consulting with governments and private agencies to address SHEDDER access to the enjoyment of all “human rights free of violence, sexual and reproductive rights, access to justice, socio-economic equality, and participation in decision-making” (UN Human Rights);
  • offering support for research related to SHEDDING health;
  • raising, investing, and administering funds necessary for SSCO to achieve its purposes; and
  • embracing any other activity which is consistent with the foregoing and which aids and assists SHEDDERS.

Achieving our purposes will require financial support from those who identify, align and/or have enthusiasm for the work we do.

Donate Now

As a newly formed non-profit, our charitable organization invites you to support our worthy and long-needed mission. Partnering with SSCO through sponsorship will position your organization with justice, equality, diversity and inclusion (JEDI). Check out the following opportunities to become a She Sheds JEDI partner today.

Sponsorships

Despite the pain of endometriosis, diagnoses take seven years on average globally. In India, where 42 million women have the disease, cultural stigmas can make the delay even longer. It affects 1 in 10 women.

Source: Hilary Critchley, a gynaecologist and academic at the University of Edinburgh.

Up to 25% of women experience at least one episode of heavy bleeding during their reproductive age, while one in 10 have endometriosis – a condition where cells that are usually found inside the uterus grow in other locations. Between 14% to 25% of women have irregular menstrual cycles.

Source: Catriona Harvey-Jenner

49% of girls have missed an entire day of school because of their period, and over the course of a year 137,700 children miss school because of period poverty.

Source: Plan International UK

Only 55% of the population feel they’re knowledgeable about menstruation, while 59% of men believe that nothing can be done about period-related suffering.

Source: Essity

46% per cent of 16 to 24-year-olds were not even confident they knew exactly what a vulva is.

Source: Callay