# Laura Coryton

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Period! On the Blob with Laura Coryton and Kenny Ethan Jones.

In this episode we discuss all things being on the blob with Laura Coryton and Kenny Ethan Jones.  Laura Coryton led the successful UK petition to end tampon tax, the sexist tax levy applied to all period products, which gained over 318,000 signatures and changed UK law in 2020. Her campaign is ...

S3 Ep2 The Protest of a Generation w/ Laura Coryton

As a proud feminist activist who seeks to challenge inequalities by campaigning for social, cultural and economic change, this week's guest Laura Coryton knows all about the power of young people's voices. Her "End Tampon Tax" campaign threw her fantastic advocacy into the spotlight when in 2021 ...

Practical advice for anxious mothers. Burns specialist Professor Fiona Wood. Iran protests

The imagery around pregnancy is often of glowing women doing yoga with calm expressions. For many women through it can be a time of anxiety about the birth, the baby, the future. All perfectly natural but it can be hard to ask for or access help. A new book ‘Break Free From Maternal Anxiety’ A ...

How to Challenge the Patriarchy, or How To Campaign For Change

Laura Coryton is an activist, campaigner and educator. You may recognise her name as the woman we have to thank for the abolition of the tampon tax. Laura started a petition to address the issue of VAT on period products after discovering the gender imbalance in our taxation system which unfairl ...

S2 Ep656: Sex Education Accessibility with Sex Ed Matters

Did you miss out on Sex Education because it wasn’t taught in an accessible way? Amelia talked to charity Sex Ed Matters about the barriers blind and partially sighted people face in the classroom, misconceptions they experience when dating and why representation matters. Here she is in conver ...

S2 Ep656: Sex Education Accessibility with Sex Ed Matters

Did you miss out on Sex Education because it wasn’t taught in an accessible way? Amelia talked to charity Sex Ed Matters about the barriers blind and partially sighted people face in the classroom, misconceptions they experience when dating and why representation matters. Here she is in conver ...

Stop taxing periods. Period.

The guest on this episode is Laura Coryton, a British campaigner, feminist activist and author who started the "Stop taxing periods, period" campaign in 2014, while she was still a student. The campaign sought to abolish the 'tampon tax' in the United Kingdom by making menstrual products exempt ...

Adolescence- How to discuss in schools with Laura Coryton

In a special episode, Michael sits down with Laura Coryton MBE to discuss how schools can have productive conversations around the themes raised in the smash hit show Adolescence. Laura is the founder and director of the relationships and sex ed social enterprise 'Sex Ed Matters', the author of ...

Bookshelfie: Laura Coryton

Feminist campaigner and founder of Sex Ed Matters, Laura Coryton discusses the power of sisterhood, the books which have inspired her campaigning and why sex education in schools still needs to evolve.In 2014, Laura led the petition ‘Stop Taxing Periods’ to end tampon tax, which gained over 300, ...

What Nobody Tells You About Creating Change | Laura Coryton & Rachael Crook

Why do some people spend years fighting for change — long before anyone notices the result? And what does it actually take to keep going when people dismiss your ideas, systems resist change, and success feels impossibly far away? In this episode of Catch The Upswing, Jessica Espinoza speaks w ...