It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation Dahlqvist Anna
It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation Dahlqvist Anna Across the world, 2 billion people experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame. In many parts of the…
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It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation Dahlqvist Anna
Across the world, 2 billion people experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame. In many parts of the world, poverty, culture and religion collide causing the taboo around menstruation to have grave consequences. We are told not to discuss it in public, that tampons and sanitary pads should be hidden away, the blood rendered invisible.
The shame is universal and the silence a global rule.In It's Only Blood Anna Dahlqvist tells the shocking but always moving stories of why and how people from Sweden to Bangladesh, from the United States to Uganda, are fighting back against the Younger people who menstruate are deterred from going to school, adults from work, infections are left untreated.