This Empowering Poem About Period Shaming That Women Face Will Make You Bleed With Pride!

There are many problems that plague or nation today, but the most pressing one that endangers a woman’s right to hygiene is period shaming, the same that we are not allowed to talk about. The same stigma that stems from red ‘dots’ which, to be true is biological (only natural), but bears the potential of leaving small girls red-faced and embarrassed. And the whispers/ murmurs that it brings along is only the tip of the iceberg!

But it’s time we know better. It’s time we stop wrapping pads with shame and disgust and it is definitely the time to tell young girls that ‘period is not equal to a stop.’ And that is exactly what this powerful poem by Aranya Johar is trying to tell us. Irrespective of gender and genitals, this video uploaded by Menstrual Hygiene Day – India is for every woman who has been stigmatised and told she belonged in a four-walled room, just because she bleeds and every man who has made the mistake of hushing it down. India, its time to celebrate the only blood that is shed without violence and it’s time to bleed with pride!