Speaking The Unspoken | வாயை மூடு பேசாதே | EP3 - எது தீட்டு? #Longing

In India, menstruating women are traditionally advised rules to follow. During menstruation, women are advised not to “enter any place of worship, work in kitchen, wear flowers, touch other males or females". Menstruation is seen as a period of purification, and women are often separated from place of worship or any object pertaining to it, for the length of their period.

The menstrual taboo is essentially a kind of flawed cultural logic, where we are all asked to participate in a falsehood: the lie that there is something wrong with menstruation, that it is inherently unclean, weird and unnatural, when the opposite is true. When you start to look, you can see evidence of the menstrual taboo everywhere.

When combined with the stigma and shame that women and girls are made to feel during periods on special days, it is truly dis-empowering. This idea of women being contaminated and impure—that then has an effect on how they feel and see themselves and how they see their own womanhood.

Much more has to be done to address the menstrual health needs of women and girls and to acknowledge that the failure to address them has a detrimental impact on all areas of women’s lives.

Let's break the shackles that's preserving one's wish & dream, a longing one!

#Longing