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Period drama

Sorry. We won’t talk about periods on prime time.”

That was the reply we got when my company, The Hello Cup, suggested a prominent New Zealand current affairs show might like to have Rain Dove, a non-binary international model and activist, appear as a guest to talk about period stigma. Our business, based right here in Aotearoa, makes and distributes menstrual cups, and we’d come to Rain's attention in 2019 after they tried – and loved – our cups.

US-based Rain was in New Zealand to

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