Menstruacja

Half the world’s population menstruate, yet the period invariably remains a taboo surrounded by many myths. Those myths are alive and well despite the passing years. It’s high time these myths were busted.

Access to menstrual hygiene products is a human right. Yet menstrual poverty is a phenomenon that, although scrupulously concealed and very often overlooked in public discourse, is a problem affecting every fifth woman or girl in Poland. Having no funds to buy proper menstrual pads, each month they isolate themselves by giving up their daily activities. There is a draft act that, if passed, will change this.

I talk to my daughter about my menopause. I want her to grow up free from all the stereotypes, burdens and limitations that I had to face. I told her that it was a time of changes for me and I didn’t know what it would look like

If a government says: we’ll give you free sanitary pads, it’s really saying: girls are important.