The Melbourne singer songwriter has teamed up with a local charity, Gift Box, that sees a box of tampons given for every one purchased to homeless Australian women.
"I think it's important to talk about tampons and getting your period and stuff like that because there's so much shame and it's an everyday thing," Barter told AAP.
The musician released her debut album, A Suitable Girl, earlier this year and is out on her biggest headline tour of the country.
Danielle McGraneAustralian Associated Press
Ali Barter is tired of the shame surrounding women's periods and is taking action.
The Melbourne singer songwriter has teamed up with a local charity, Gift Box, that sees a box of tampons given for every one purchased to homeless Australian women.
"I think it's important to talk about tampons and getting your period and stuff like that because there's so much shame and it's an everyday thing," Barter told AAP.
The musician released her debut album, A Suitable Girl, earlier this year and is out on her biggest headline tour of the country.
The message in her music has always related back to her own experiences.
"I write a lot about shame; shame in being a woman and shame about my physical appearance, shame about the way I felt and feelings I had or whatever, and a lot of my writing is to get it all out and be really honest about it so I can forgive myself and let it go more and so someone else can identify with it, because shame is such a hideous thing," she said.
"And with periods and whatnot there's so much shame attached to it. We don't talk about it very much."
Since she started out, the musician has wanted to get behind a charity linked with sanitary care due to her frustrations at how women's menstruation is perceived and to help disadvantaged women.
"When this Gift Box organic thing came up it was like 'Yes. I just love what they do'," she said.
She's teamed up with artist Lily Gloria to design tea towels that will be sold at all her upcoming gigs on her tour, with donations going straight to Gift Box.
"The tea towel design is really fun and it's tampon-related, and woman-related as well," she said.
"We're going to be selling them at the shows and I'm really excited, I think they're really cute."
*Ali Barter's tour continues in the Geelong Workers Club on August 25 and finishes up in Canberra on October 1