Okoth Paul

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.

The popular narrative of rural India regarding menstrual health has always been perceived as a backward region. An area of uneducated people with the unavailability of sanitary products, using the same old traditional methods and blindly following the stereotypes attached to it. It is surprising, how people tend to make assumptions on the image of another person based on the geographical region they stay in.

Disabilities and periods are two grievous taboos with disabilities being linked to the past-life karma in cultures across the country, and periods being the stigma of a menstruator’s life. Oft-ignored conversations of menstruating with disability need to be talked about on the with priority. Maharogi Sewa Samiti, a non-profit, surveyed Maharashtra to know how menstruators with a disability deal with the problems of communication, infrastructure and product usage.