Bleeding for Equality

Photo by Han Chenxu on Unsplash

Strawberry days. Aunt Flow. Shark Week. Moon time. You know that time of the month. You could probably think of a dozen other euphemisms for “He who shall not be named”. As a society, we actively avoid talking about menstruation, as if merely uttering the word “period” will summon a demon from hell, drenched in blood and ready to devour your soul. The topic is such taboo that I struggled to find an image of a tampon for this post, having to resort…