Post by kevin on Sept 27, 2021 20:59:27 GMT -5
From Britain's leading medical journal, *The Lancet* "Periods on Display"
"The silence, shame, and stigma surrounding menstruation are increasingly being challenged from various cultural domains. In a bold, comical, and highly digestible book, It's About Bloody Time. Period. (2019), Emma Barnett busts taboos about menstruation. Others have focused on period poverty—the lack of access to sanitary products and safe, hygienic spaces in which to use them. In some settings, period poverty, combined with shame and insufficient knowledge about menstruation, can lead to missing school, thus threatening girls' education. From among a new wave of activists stepping up to address this issue came director Rayka Zehtabchi and producer Melissa Berton's Oscar-winning documentary film, Period. End of Sentence. (2018), which follows a group of young women in an Indian village as they learn how to operate a machine that makes low-cost sanitary pads, empowering the women economically and challenging stigmas. And on the heels of that documentary is a new book by Anita Diamant, Period. End of Sentence. A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice (2021). Weaving together reclaimed traditions with personal accounts from menstruators around the world, Diamant shows just how much our stories matter.
"Now, building on this momentum is a new space dedicated to menstruation: an exhibition entitled Periods: A Brief History at the Vagina Museum in London, UK. One of the red threads running through the exhibition is the dominance of myths and taboos about menstruation from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome to the present day. Dovetailing with that theme is a focus on the history of medicine. Taking a historical approach felt like a natural step for the Vagina Museum, according to its director, Florence Schechter. “One of the questions that we always get at the Vagina Museum is ‘what did people do in the past with their periods?'”, she told me. Under the curation of Sarah Creed, the exhibition takes a broad historical sweep, beginning with prehistory and cave art, and moving through the history of medicine to modern activism..." www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01962-0/fulltext
"The silence, shame, and stigma surrounding menstruation are increasingly being challenged from various cultural domains. In a bold, comical, and highly digestible book, It's About Bloody Time. Period. (2019), Emma Barnett busts taboos about menstruation. Others have focused on period poverty—the lack of access to sanitary products and safe, hygienic spaces in which to use them. In some settings, period poverty, combined with shame and insufficient knowledge about menstruation, can lead to missing school, thus threatening girls' education. From among a new wave of activists stepping up to address this issue came director Rayka Zehtabchi and producer Melissa Berton's Oscar-winning documentary film, Period. End of Sentence. (2018), which follows a group of young women in an Indian village as they learn how to operate a machine that makes low-cost sanitary pads, empowering the women economically and challenging stigmas. And on the heels of that documentary is a new book by Anita Diamant, Period. End of Sentence. A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice (2021). Weaving together reclaimed traditions with personal accounts from menstruators around the world, Diamant shows just how much our stories matter.
"Now, building on this momentum is a new space dedicated to menstruation: an exhibition entitled Periods: A Brief History at the Vagina Museum in London, UK. One of the red threads running through the exhibition is the dominance of myths and taboos about menstruation from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome to the present day. Dovetailing with that theme is a focus on the history of medicine. Taking a historical approach felt like a natural step for the Vagina Museum, according to its director, Florence Schechter. “One of the questions that we always get at the Vagina Museum is ‘what did people do in the past with their periods?'”, she told me. Under the curation of Sarah Creed, the exhibition takes a broad historical sweep, beginning with prehistory and cave art, and moving through the history of medicine to modern activism..." www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01962-0/fulltext