The crusade begins.

[gemfyre]

The pamphlets and stickers arrived from Mooncup a few days ago and today I approached the student guild to find out the best way to publicise menstrual cups.

I asked if I could put stickers in the toilets and the girl there said she couldn't approve or disapprove it but "I know what I'd do."  There are plenty of other stickers in the toilets, so the Mooncup ones will be joining them.

I'll e-mail Divacup and The Keeper and see if they can send me some stickers and/or pamphlets.  If they can't send stuff I'll just write the URLs on the Mooncup leaflets and stickers.

I can leave some of the pamphlets at the guild shop/office and I have the contact details for the women's collective, so pamphlets will be showing up in the women's room too (but I'm not sure how much that room gets used).

And the best thing.  The next edition of Metior (the campus newspaper) happens to be the women's edition.  What a perfect opportunity to sing the praises of alternative menstrual products and get the word out!  I'll include the URLs for the_keeper, anti_tampon and vaginapagina as well as the sites for all the products.

Comments

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

... o.O ... You go to Murdoch too? I do not think I knew that. This is weird.

Now I guess I shall be seeing mooncup stickers about.

If I may ask, what course are you doing? Me: first year law/asian studies.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Conservation Biology here. Over on the other side of campus. :)

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'll have to take a few forays into the arts half of the campus and attack the toilets there too. :)

Where ARE the loos over that side? Only ones I know are the ones next to the... Brian Hill? lecture theatre.

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

Well... if you go into the Education Humanities building, there are loos on every floor, near the lifts. There are loos in the new law building too, they are snazzy and new, so I do not think stickers would go down well there. Aside from that, the ECL building has a set of loos by the steps.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

That new law building!

They ripped out a load of grevillia that used to be full of honeyeaters to build that. *growls at uni planners*

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, that's not good at all. I had no idea.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

The price of progress.

At least they haven't ripped out banksia court to move student village there, which was on the plans. That'd be horrid, there are so many birds in that garden.

A new building recently went up near the biol. sciences building right where we once did bird netting. On the bright side it looks like a food outlet, I just hope it's Guild owned.

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

Mmm food...

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

If you rummage around on the murdoch website, there are floorplans for every building. ;)

I discovered this last semester looking for my exam room, and of course it was in the new law building, wasn't it? And there wasn't a floorplan for that, was there? Grrr. How do they expect an education major to magically know her way around a whole different part of the uni? Exams should at least be in the same building as the subject--not like there aren't heaps of EH rooms they could have used. I went to the guild exam helpdesk on the morning, and what did the girl say? "Oh, I saw some people go into the ECL room, go look over there." Grr. Cos I'm so stupid I thought that "ECL" actually looked like an "L" (oops, I got on my soapbox...)

Is karaoke on tonight and/or tomorrow, or are you feeling too sick?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Tis on tonight.

Tomorrow is the Chuppa Party!

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

Awesome. :) I cannot find my way around anywhere outside of the ECL building. :P

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Ah, but as you just said you're a first year. I've been studying there for 4 years and was vaguely familiar with some of the campus beforehand due to many friends being there.

ECL is a good place to start though, nice and central.

Just watch out, for some reason all kinds of courses like to make use of the vet building lecture theatres. Now for a biol based like what I'm doing that makes sense but my comp-sci b/f has even had lectures down there.

If you don't know where these lecture theatres are, put aside at least 20 minutes to find them. Once you know where they are it's easy, but they're waayyy over the farm side of campus and hidden on the second floor.

Then there's the even more obscure "5th year vet lecture theatre" which I've done one unit in. That's even more hidden and out of the way.

[blissful-queen.livejournal.com]

hey babe, what are mooncups?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Mooncup, DivaCup & The Keeper.

I have the DivaCup.

[blissful-queen.livejournal.com]

I need to look into that!

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

Highly recommend them! :)

[annyka.livejournal.com]

Can you get them in Australia, or do you have to order OL overseas?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

At the moment I think they're only available at one shop in Brisbane.

All the companies ship overseas, you just have to deal with the exchange rate.

[roshy.livejournal.com]

Psychology girl here. I'll be sure to keep an eye out. ;)

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Wow, I just checked out your info page and you have so many interests the same as me that I might have to add you. ;)

[roshy.livejournal.com]

I doubt you'll read anything interesting, but I promise you updates of every baby animal that turns up outside my window!

And with your permission, I would like to add you back. :)

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Add away. :)

Hoorah for Perthies.

I've been through Port Hedland a few times on the way to and from Broome.

[roshy.livejournal.com]

If you were just passing through, I doubt you'd have seen any of the high points-- our attractive beaches, our prime fishing spots, our... nice big piles of iron ore rock?

It's a nice place to be from, but alas, suffers in comparison to Perth and even Broome. :)

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I remember a BIG pile of salt. :)