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Drawing First Blood

Period Documentary Oscar Proves How Far We’ve Come in Talking About Menstruation

...believe a film about menstruation just won an Oscar!” Hopefully we’ll someday get to a place where menstruation is so normalized that making an award-winning film about it isn’t even...

By Nadia Nooreyezdan

Our ‘Bloody Lies’ Series Documents the Myths People Hear About Menstruation

In Bloody Lies, we document cultural myths around menstruation and the falsehoods people hear about their reproductive and sexual health. Their stories capture social bias, prejudice, and the absurd lies...

By The Swaddle Team

On the Eve of ‘Pad Man,’ An Open Letter to the Government about Menstruation

Hey, Government of India. Long time, no chat. With Akshay Kumar’s Pad Man releasing tomorrow, I’ve got menstruation on my mind — and a proposal for you. Before we begin,...

Menstruation Is a Negotiation With Survival for Many Women

For the privileged, periods come with annoyance, pain and if anything, an increasingly progressive discourse around the stigma of menstruation. But for India’s crores of socio-economically disadvantaged women, menstruating comes...

By Pallavi Prasad

None Of Your Bloody Business

From Riches to Rags: The Evolution of Menstrual Taboos in India

Menstruation wasn’t always considered a dirty and impure bodily function wielded as a weapon by society to restrict women’s mobility. Historically, in many Indian cultures, menstruation was considered auspicious, and...

Bloody Frustrating

Shashi Tharoor’s Proposal to Distribute Free Pads Doesn’t Solve a Lack of Menstrual Rights

...Today, the challenge has become about fighting against the popular narrative that exist in society around menstruation. We need to enable and support a substantial change in the way menstruation...

By Yashasvini Mathur

How Indian Women’s Mental Health Is Deeply Tied to Proper Menstrual Care

...menstruation. The life-cycle approach looks at menstruation as a repeated process that includes a multitude of changes that occur from menarche to menopause. Menstruation is viewed not as a sign...

By Anna Maria Joseph

23% of India’s Girls Drop Out of School at Puberty; Period Bullying Is One Reason Why

...menstruation such as leaking, staining, or asking more frequently for permission to go to the toilet. It’s a global problem; as per a 2018 YouGov survey across U.K. secondary schools,...

By Anubhuti Matta

Menstruating Women Cannot Be Socially Excluded From Public, Private Places, Says Gujarat HC

...“the challenge of addressing the socio-cultural taboos and beliefs in menstruation is further compounded by the fact the girls’ knowledge levels and understandings of puberty, menstruation, and reproductive health are...

By Satviki Sanjay

Not Feeling Like Yourself

The Overlooked, Little Understood Condition Often Mistaken for PMS

...abnormal reaction to hormonal changes related to menstruation,” says Dr Sushma Tomar, Obsetrician and Gynecologist at Fortis Hospital. Traditionally, the medical and scientific communities have viewed menstruation as a monthly...

By Anubhuti Matta

Your Menstrual Cycle Keeps Changing Throughout Your Lifetime

...the woman. Periods during adolescence Menstruation starts before girls’ bodies are fully mature. Hormones regulated by the brain trigger ovulation in the ovary, which in turn triggers menstruation. But because...

By Liesl Goecker

Women Lose Nine Days of Productivity Annually Due to Menstrual Symptoms

...seeking medical care. This is likely due to a variety of factors, including not discussing menstruation because of social or cultural taboos, a lack of quality education on menstruation, feeling...

By Mike Armour, Christina Curry & Freya MacMillan, The Conversation

Is It Okay to Use Birth Control to Skip a Period (or Several)?

...being released from the ovary and effectively curbs menstruation. Birth control pills contain various combinations of active hormone pills (that suppress production) and placebo pills (which induce bleeding), taken in...

Pain Not Worth It

How Meftal Redefined the Cultural Relationship Between Pain and Femininity

...worry until then. What I didn’t have the opportunity to say was that I was not worried, I was in pain. The “pain myth,” a common experience of menstruation, goes...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

Undiagnosed Sexually Transmitted Infections Can Make PMS Worse

...an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK. Alvergne and team analysed data on menstruation patterns, contraceptive use, pain and emotional health from more than 800 users...

By Liesl Goecker

All You Can Eat

Hormones Change Appetite, Body Image Throughout the Menstrual Cycle

...image right before and during menstruation. During the pre-menstrual, or luteal phase, the body secretes more progesterone. In this phase, researchers found women tended to binge eat, and also suffered...

Through Thick And Thin

Periods Don’t Sync Up, No Matter How Much Time People Spend With Each Other

...chance than rigorous scientific study. In an interview with The Atlantic, Strassmann explained that for an average menstrual cycle of 28 days, with menstruation lasting for an average of five...

What the So‑Called Fourth Trimester Means for Postpartum Women

...vulnerability to infection. Also during this period ovulation resumes; for women who are not breastfeeding, menstruation typically resumes six to eight weeks after childbirth, and for women who are breastfeeding,...

By Liesl Goecker

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