Guest blog by Britta Wiebe, co-founder of Vulvani Many of us internalise damaging menstrual/ gender myths to the point that we prefer not to touch, talk about, or even look
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Archives for Language taboos
Hiding that You’re Hiding it: The Double Burden of Menstrual Invisibility
Guest blog by Dr Lucy Pickering- based on the original research of Natalie Moffat There is a lot of pressure on menstruators to hide their periods. Indeed, this is the
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When ‘hygiene’ becomes a dirty word…
In honour of global Menstrual ‘Hygiene’ Day (MHD) on May 28th, I thought I’d write about why there is a move to change the name… Spoiler alert!- It’s not just
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Menstrual Maths # 1: Why we say ‘people who menstruate’…
In December 2018, there was a twitter storm after a menstrual health activist referred to people who menstruate as ‘bleeders’ in a lighthearted tweet raising awareness of period poverty. Some
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Without expression; silencing the role of the menstrual cycle in ill health- Part 2.
Last week, we focused on how people can be at a loss for words, or prefer to speak in code (usually through euphemisms), when it comes to discussing female reproductive
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Anatomy, Language taboos and No shame.
