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Articles by Gunjan Khadria
क्यों लड़के स्कूल में पीरियड्स के दौरान लड़कियों का मज़ाक उड़ाते हैं?
This post is a part of Periodपाठ, a campaign by Youth Ki Awaaz in collaboration with WSSCC to highlight the need for better menstrual hygiene management in India. Click here to find out more. This post is a part of Periodपाठ, a campaign by Youth Ki Awaaz in collaboration with WSSCC to highlight the need for better menstrual hygiene management in India. Click here to find out more.
Can Female Genital Mutilation Affect Period Flow?
Globally, people still hold onto many taboos and myths around menstruation. Such notions around period create negative attitudes toward this biological phenomenon and menstruators experiencing it. After menarche, girls experience challenges related to the management of period in public places. According to UNESCO, 1 in 10 school-age African girls do not attend school during menstruation. The World Bank further highlights absences of approximately four days every four weeks.
How Has The Period Industry Changed Over The Last 100 Years?
In recent years, the activity on periods has always made the global headlines, targeting taboos, digging at public policy, and promoting companies to create new products (including women, transgender, non-binary people). However, there is a growing concern about the corporate influence on the period resources. Menstruation in the last 100 years has become one of the most profitable markets producing various menstrual products.
Menstruators Should Be Allowed Menstruation Leaves, Period
Should a menstruator get paid leaves? This common question has been surfacing after a decision made by Zomato recently. Although this is not the first time that an organisation is making a progressive decision such as this to justify the diversity of biological process. The Bihar government also has the provision of taking two period leaves per month since 1992.
Menstrual Music: Seven Musicians Who Sang The Glory Of Menses
From Bob Dylan’s timeless song ‘Times Are A Changin’ to Iqbal Bano draped in black saree performing ‘Hum Dekhenge’, music justifies its true invisible potential to bring ripples of change. Musicians made it a crucial weapon to wrestle against all kinds of socio-economic evils by crooning melodious tunes. Let’s not forget the modern pop culture genre of punk, funk, rap and hip-hop that had their roots in rebellion.
Zomato’s Period Policy Will ‘Give Agency To Women In A Man’s World’
It’s been more than a month since Zomato its period policy which stormed the Internet. With the good, bad, and ugly remarks, the people of the Internet reacted to this inception in Zomato’s policy.
क्या आदिवासी समाज में मेंस्ट्रुअल टैबूज़ हैं?
This post is a part of Periodपाठ, a campaign by Youth Ki Awaaz in collaboration with WSSCC to highlight the need for better menstrual hygiene management in India. Click here to find out more. This post is a part of Periodपाठ, a campaign by Youth Ki Awaaz in collaboration with WSSCC to highlight the need for better menstrual hygiene management in India. Click here to find out more.
Lack Of Access To Period Products Is Hard On Transfolx And Non-Binary People
The cost of sanitary products is restrictive for many. It might hinder a person’s day to day life, inability to attend schools, job interviews, or opportunities that could lead to economic advancement. It’s easy to visualize that the lack of access of period products is hard on transgender and non-binary people. So, when we consider them, they are more likely to live in period poverty than cis-people.
Forced To Urinate Behind Parked Cars, Access To Toilets A Dream For Domestic Workers
We rarely talk about periods as a public health crisis in the unorganised sector. Domestic workers in India are entangled in such a situation where they work long hours and are paid poorly with no job security. They are denied the right to health, education, justice, and dignity. According to a study, the informal sector employs 96% of the female labour. In such a scenario, staying home due to menstrual pain means losing a day’s wages.
#PledgeAPeriod: This Organisation Is Empowering Girls In Mumbai Slums
Naamra a 20-year-old, who dropped out of college during her 2nd year had attended a menstrual hygiene management session with the Myna Mahila Foundation last year, where she learned gender attitudes, menstrual hygiene management and reproductive health. She was extremely inquisitive about gender roles, her place in the society as a young woman and she was eager to learn more about her body and menstruation.
“Do I Get A Holiday From Housework When I’m On My Period?”
“At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial- and any question about sex is that- one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one’s audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.” – A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf The new policy of period leaves caused quite a stir on social media in the past few weeks.
How Swachh Is Our Bharat? India’s Cleanliness Survey Fails to Capture Realities
India’s Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) recently released the results of what is deemed to be the world’s largest sanitation survey, Swachh Survekshan 2020 (SS 2020). The ministry was able to publish this year’s results amidst the raging COVID-19 pandemic after several stages of assessment and auditing with the assistance of a third party. This year, the survey was able to assess 4242 urban local bodies (ULBs), including the assessment for 62 cantonment boards.
Why Are Young Menstruators Reaching Menopause Early?
While open conversations surrounding menstruation have been growing, there several aspects of menstruation that have still been left behind. Young girls find out about menstruation usually around the time of their menarche (first period). They are taught about how to cover up and behave during the time but they are never told that menstruation is not actually a lifelong thing! Commonly starting at around 45-50 years of age, the end of a woman’s menstrual period is known as menopause.
Did You Know About These 2 Policies That Talk About Menstruation In India?
Around of rural India practices open defecation (OD) regardless of having toilet facilities. The predominant reason for such practice being lack of awareness, following old age practice and insufficient numbers of toilets. The problem has an impact on menstruating people as compared to others. Therefore, to cater to the issue of toilets in rural areas, the Government of India (GOI) initiated some campaigns to relieve the Indian public from such struggle.
‘Menstrual Justice’ Stands Trial In The Court Of Classism And Casteism
Menstrual justice, a term first used by Margaret E. Johnson in her paper, dealt extensively with a menstrual injustice that occurs in various forms in the United States of America. However, Menstrual injustices as a universal phenomenon can be demonstrated in the Indian context as well. Menstrual injustice takes various shapes- such as patriarchy, casteism, Transphobia and gender discrimination, classism to list a few.
Get ‘Em Young: Intervention In Schools Might Help Us Bust Menstrual Myths
Aristotle had rightly said, “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Menstruation can be defined as the discharge of blood and tissues through the vagina. Menstruation is a biological cycle that occurs on a regular interval inside a women’s body. Menstruation typically starts during teenage years, typically between 12-15 years, when the body starts secreting hormones for the development of the body for future fertilisation.
What Are You Reading This August? Ethico’s Got You Covered!
Sheena Kelly When Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring hit the book-stands back in the 1960s, the climate crisis was still a distant reality. And yet, the book made the right kind of noise and attracted the right kind of attention towards environmental urgencies. Cut to 2020, the talk around environmental degradation is far more pressing. Thankfully, there are a host of titles that help break down and build up the environment conversation.
This 18-Year-Old Author Has Written A Novel On The Coronavirus Outbreak
The world is reeling with a multitude of crises. Situations arising from the pandemic have propelled us to think, understand and appreciate more. Our thoughts and conscience are creating a new reality each day. At times, it seems that everything might end, but risers like Yash Tiwari, an 18-year-old writer from Kanpur, India, are reversing this frightful stance of a pandemic into a more promising one.
4 Indian Politicians Discuss How They Plan To Change The Period Narrative
In 2018, Ninong Ering, a former Member of Parliament from Arunachal Pradesh introduced the Menstruation Benefits Bill 2017 in Lok Sabha. Among other things, the bill asked that every woman employee be provided thirty minutes of rest twice a day, for four days during menstruation and that women be given the right to self perception of their menstruation period. But the pièce de résistance of the Bill was the demand for menstrual leave.
7 Fictional Books With Periods As A Plot Point
This post is a part of Periodपाठ, a campaign by Youth Ki Awaaz in collaboration with WSSCC to highlight the need for better menstrual hygiene management in India. Click here to find out more. This post is a part of Periodपाठ, a campaign by Youth Ki Awaaz in collaboration with WSSCC to highlight the need for better menstrual hygiene management in India. Click here to find out more. I am an avid reader and have been into various genres of books for the past 12 years.
#DUBleeds: The Grim Situation Of The Exclusionary Delhi University Washrooms
Imagine reaching college after a tedious metro ride followed by a short yet uncomfortable journey on a bouncy rickshaw that left your stomach-churning. After this daily battle, all you want now is to go to the washroom, run a comb through your messy hair and freshen yourself before another battle begins.
“The amount of dirt I have to see; I skip my meals on most days.”
The Adi Ganga running down South Kolkata’s Tollygunge area, an essential water channel, has now turned into a toxic sewer due to untreated waste discharge. The air around it is unbreathable. People pinch their noses tight when crossing it. I have witnessed this since childhood, and nothing has changed. Solid waste management is a huge issue India grapples with.
“When We Talk About Periods, People Think It’s A Sex Worker, Your Opinions Don’t Matter”
In a culture where both periods and sex work are stigmatised; talking about both at the same time has only attracted silence and ignorance. Periods are typically not discussed outside a comfort zone. Similarly, sex work is spoken of in hushed tones. A question that often pops up in conversations on periods and sex work is; how menstruation impacts the financial of sex workers. What steps do they have to take to mitigate its impact? How is their health affected? What about their emotional well-being?
The Period Project: Why Teachers Need To Be At The Forefront To Talk About MHM
While the world is dealing with COVID -19, it’s the marginalised people who have been affected the most. COVID-19 has led to a decrease in access to sexual and reproductive health services, and the safety of women and girls is at risk with a rise in domestic violence, sexual abuse cases. With the extension of the lockdown, it is harder to provide support and shelter to women desperately in need of it.
Why Periods Become A Vulnerability For Women Living In Slums
Indian urban slum dwellers and the urban poor make up a heterogeneous group with differing levels of deprivation and vulnerability. The situation is so common that one in every six urban Indians lives in slums. In Andhra Pradesh, 36.1 % of its urban population has been living in slums. Nine out of every ten slum households in Odisha are either without a drainage connection or connected to an open drain (making the population more vulnerable to diseases).
Why Does Hinduism Still Insist On Impurity Of Menstruation
Menstruation is a stigma in our society, and it has been built up due to an orthodox belief in the impurity of menstruating women and society’s unwillingness of having a healthy discussion on it. The silence around menstruation is so culturally ingrained that we can see it in our homes. For example, a family objecting menstruating girls visiting religious places for fear of hampering the “purity” of the place.
Why Men Need To Grow Up When It Comes To Periods
I still remember the day I got my first period. I was 11 (I was an early bloomer), my mom and I were visiting my dad in Delhi during the Durga Puja vacation. Like so many young girls of my generation, I had been unaware of the idea of menstruation and of what women go through every month throughout the prime or their youth, and well into middle age.
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