Menstruation
Menstruation is okay!
Most Netflix shows that teenagers watch have blood in them. On the screen it is exciting and boosts entertainment. And suddenly there is menstrual blood that is dirty that needs to be hidden, ideally it should even be blue. It is incredible that the blood of violence is more “sexy” than the one that gives life.
Feminisation of poverty. In Poland, poverty has the face of a woman. It is often a girl’s face.
There is a category in unemployment statistics: “long-term unemployed” and it includes people unemployed for a year and for several years. While researching this problem several years ago for a project on the feminisation of poverty in Lodz, I discovered that 52 years of age is the limit of employment for a woman. Interview with Izabela Desperak, PhD, sociologist
Menstruation without a filter
Once, the poet Rupi Kaur posted a picture of underwear soiled with menstrual blood on her profile, and Instagram quickly deleted it. Today, algorithms are more tolerant of photos of blood-stained panties and pads. What about us?
Portraits of women with pads
You sit on the ground because you’re unclean. The blood soaks into the sand like into a sanitary pad.
We maintain menstrual taboos ourselves. It’s in good taste to complain about your period. Interview with artist Iza Moczarna.
We often think of menstruation as a time when we are weak, emotionally unstable, unavailable, not the way we “should” be
