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Published: 2015-10-29
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm0isl11BfY
BDS blood menstruation gross secret hidden why a natural biological processes that every girl and woman goes through every month for about half of our life a phenomenon that is so significant that the survival and propagation off our species depends on it yet because it you ducked out who we feel awkward and share for talking about it when I got my first three years I would do
to keep it a secret from others even from my father or brother later in this chapter appeared in our textbooks our biology teacher skip the subject you know what I learned from it I learned that it is really shameful to talk about it I learned to be ashamed of my body I learnt to state another it about previous in order to stay decent research in various
parts of India shows that three out of every ten good is not a whit about menstruation at the time of four four speeds and in some parts of phlogiston this number is as high as nine out of ten good being on a bit about it you'd be surprised to know that most of the girls that I have spoken to who did not know about BDS at
the time of death for us menstruation target their guard blood cancer and they're going to die soon Mr hygiene is a very important risk factor for reproductive tract infection but in India or lead drug wasn't of gauze and women have access to how do you need ways of managing their be idiots if you do the mats eighty eight percent of girls and women use on hygiene
nucleus demand is the at PT it's I was one of them I grew up in a small town called guidelines how to kind of it even buying off senator napkin is considered shameful so when I started getting my PDF's I began with using rags after every use I would wash and reuse them but to store them I would hide and keep it in a dog down
please so that nobody finds out that I'm menstruating do do doop it'd washing the racks would become course and I would often get rashes and infection using them I bought these are did for five years until I moved out of that down another issue that beat us right in my life was those of the straw show restrictions that are imposed upon a goes girls and women
in there on deadbeat dads I think you on must be available did but I'll still listed for the few adorned I was not allowed to touch out it's because I was not allowed to sit on the sofa or some of those family members bed I had to wash my bed shift after a repeated even if it was not stay I was considered MPR and forbidden from
by shipping or touching any object of religious importance you would find signboards outside employee denying the entry of menstruating goes on women ironically most of the time it is the order woman who impose such restrictions on younger girls in a family afterall they have grown up accepting such restriction as noms and in the absence of any intervention it is a myth and misconception that propagate from
generation to generation during my yourself work in this field I've even come across stories van Gogh's have to eat and wash their dishes separately they are not allowed to date by doing PDF's and in some house or that even secluded from other family about eighty five percent of girls and women in India would follow one or more distinctive customs on their previous every month can you
imagine what this does to the self esteem and self confidence of a young girl psychological drama dead this inflicts affecting our personality hug admit performance at every single aspect of growing up duty got oily for my devious I really just we followed all these restrictive custom for thirteen years I'm gonna discussion with my partner to him change my perception of our administration whatever in two thousand
nine clean and I reinforcing our was graduation in design he fell in love with each other and that was it his discussing Peters with him though he knew little about previous he was astonished annoyed that goes get painful cramps and the bleeding every month he was completely shocked to know about the distinctions that are imposed upon menstruating and goes Mr dingos and women by their own
families and the society in order to help me in my grams he would go on the internet and internet alone more about menstruation many shared his findings with me I realize how little I knew about menstruation myself and many of my beliefs actually don't know to be myths that's when we wondered if we being so well educated vessel in informed about menstruation there would be millions
of girls out there who would be ill informed to studied to understand the problem better I undertook a year long research to study that lack off of a mess about menstruation and the dude because we have while it is generally believed that Mr unawareness and misconception is that red phenomena during my research I found that it is as much about bin phenomena has been I need
exists with the educated urban glass also while talking to many parents and teachers I found that many of them actually wanted to educate because about BDS spend they have before they have started getting their menstrual cycle and but they lack the proper means themselves and since it is a terrible defeat inhibition and shameful in talking about Gus nowadays get deadbeat etched in glass and seven my
dad educational curriculum teaches goes about readers only in standard eight and nine and since it is a taboo teachers stilts given the subject altogether so school does not discuss about breeders Peter stone talk about it where did they go to school two decades ago and now nothing has changed I shared these findings with the heat and we wondered what if we could create something that would
help pay head goalless understand about menstruation on their one something that would help parents and teachers talk about previous comfortably to young girls doing my research I was collecting a lot of stories these various stories of experiences of gauze during their PDS the stories would make us curious and interested in talking about menstruation in their close circle that's what we wanted we wanted something that would
Meg Douglas curious and drive them to learn about it you wanted to use these stories to teach because of our previous so we decided to create a comic book read the cartoon characters would you nag these stories and educate goes about menstruation enough fun and engaging to represent goes in their different phases of prewar DVF three character us pinky was not guard heard Peter's here DJIA
will get said Peter steering the narrative of the book and media who has already been getting have previous there is a fourth character Preeti the through hard goes come to know about VVS aspects of growing up and menstrual hygiene manner while making the book we took great care that none of the illustration are objectionable in anyways and that it is culturally sensitive during a prototype testing
we found that the ghost love the book David Keene intriguing of reading it and knowing more and more about BDS on their own betas and be just as comfortable in talking about prehistory young younger using the book as sometimes even boys very interested in reading the comic book hit in creating an environment where menstruation ceased to be a double many of the volunteers took this prototype
yourself to educate gauze and tape measure love in this workshop in five different states in India and one of the one India's took this prototype to educate young lives into with this ministry Ladakh we made the final version of the book on Mr pretty up on me and launched in September last year and so far more than four thousand girls have been educated by using the
book in India I and in different countries we are constantly translating the book into different languages and collaborating with local organization to make this book available in different countries fifteen schools different in different parts of India have made this book as a part of their school curriculum the deed goes about masturbation I am amazed see how what India's individuals Behrens teachers score prince but have come
together and taken this minstrel heaviness drive to their own community had made sure that the go slow on about three years at the right age and help in breaking the stubble I dream of a future where menstruation is not a curse not a disease but a welcoming change in a guy's life and I would and I would like to end this with a small request to
