Meanwhile, 16-year-old menstrual care activist Nadya Okamoto was just getting started. “I started a non-profit [and] there were a lot of exciting things happening – awards and a lot of praise,” Okamoto tells me on the phone from New York. In the decade since launching that organisation to combat period poverty across the US – now known simply as Period – she’s become an internationally recognised ambassador for the movement, advocating for better access to menstrual care products worldwide. Organic pads from the August menstrual products range. If work went wrong, I wanted to f***ing kill myself.