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Period Drama campaign
In 2017, we launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign Period Drama. With a touch of humour, the film shines a light on the drama of disposable sanitary products, inviting us to leave the past behind and choose another way.
Why a ‘Period Drama’?
For some time, ‘period drama’ had been a play on words that’d been teasing us at Mooncup HQ: a simple pun just asking to be made.
We couldn’t help but notice the surge in the genre’s popularity on our screens over the past few years either. With the challenges of today’s world, maybe our urge for a ‘time machine’ isn’t that surprising!
So, a mischievous notion was born.
As those earlier Mooncup adopters will already be aware, we’ve been chipping away at the shame associated with periods since Mooncup was created in 2002. Still most of us reach out on ‘autopilot’ for disposables every month, without knowing there’s a better option. Meanwhile, the conversation around periods at large has thankfully been changing - gaining new ground from the Tampon Tax debate to Olympic medalist Fu Yuanhui commenting on her period’s impact on her performance.
We believe that Mooncup has played its part too: from the very liberation that the product offers to the mischief of our ‘Love Your Vagina’ campaign in 2010 to the Tampon vs Mooncup Rap Battle in 2013.
But as the conversation has changed, big business seems to have heard and flexed its high budget communications accordingly. So, in an advertising landscape in which causes like ‘body confidence’ are now being used to sell shower creams, and chemical-laden disposable sanitary products are marketed through feminism-lite, we thought this time we’d try a different tack – a more ‘throwaway’ laugh to call attention to a seriously liberating possibility.
Own Your Period
The campaign and invitation to ’Own your period’ celebrates independence and self-sufficiency. As one Mooncup lasts for years, those who choose Mooncup are freed from monthly trips to the feminine hygiene aisle and their long-term relationship with the san pro multinationals. There’s no more clogging up landfills and polluting beaches, not to mention imbalancing our natural moisture and leaving toxins behind. A happier ending (every month)- a period without the drama.*
We hope you enjoy the film!
*P.S – We thought it may be prudent to add one serious disclaimer to our more throwaway #PeriodDrama quip to hopefully avoid any misunderstanding. The drama of periods mentioned is intended to refer to the ‘drama’ of throwaway sanitary products only- for our environment and health. It is no way intended for use in belittling the very real and at times ‘dramatic’ experiences and symptoms that some of us experience in relation to our periods.
