Last week, on July 16, 2026, Ivy Cup set up a booth at the CHRI Campus Health Fair. We went in expecting to talk about menstrual cups. We left having had over a hundred conversations about periods, consent, contraception, and the questions people are too embarrassed to ask anywhere else.
We’re calling this our “Ask Without Shame” booth, because that’s really what it became.
CHRI invited Ivy Cup to be part of a campus-wide health fair focused on sexual and reproductive health. We could have shown up with a table of cups and a price list. Instead, we built a full experience: a spin wheel with health facts, a menstrual health trivia game, a “red flag or green flag” card game about relationships and consent, a “guess the fold” challenge for our cup, and a confession wall where students could anonymously write down period questions they’d never ask out loud. A doctor was on-site the entire day for anything that needed a real medical answer.
The goal wasn’t to sell. It was to create a space where a student could walk up, laugh at a game, and leave knowing something true about their own body.
A few questions came up again and again:
Most people don’t lack the ability to make good choices about their bodies. They lack accurate information delivered without judgment.
We also heard a lot of the same relationship red flags repeated in different words: partners refusing condoms, pressuring someone into sex, treating contraception as “just her problem.” Every one of those conversations turned into a moment where a student left with a clearer sense of what a healthy relationship actually looks like.
Other things we came across included young women who had limited understanding of their periods, some had very heavy/light periods, some had clotting, and some even had irregular periods and just needed some guidance.
Ivy Cup started because we believed reusable, comfortable menstrual care shouldn’t be a luxury or a mystery. This event confirmed something bigger: most people don’t lack the ability to make good choices about their bodies, they lack accurate information delivered without judgment. Give people that, in a format that doesn’t feel like a lecture, and they engage.
More than 500 students visited the booth over the course of the day. We collected contact information from over 160 of them who wanted to stay connected, sold cups and kits to students trying them for the first time, and filmed enough footage to keep sharing what we learned for weeks.
This won’t be a one-off. We’re building this into a repeatable model so Ivy Cup can bring “Ask Without Shame” to more campuses. If your school, church group, or organization wants to host something similar, reach out. We’ll bring the doctor, the games, and the cups. You bring the students.
Thank you to CHRI for the invitation, to our volunteers for showing up prepared, and to every student who asked a question they’d been sitting on for years.
