GIRL BOSS - Period Shame - The Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- ‘Period Shame’ is a documentary that takes a snapshot of the experiences of girls in the township of Olievenhoutbosch, Centurion, South Africa, and their experiences as they transition into womanhood.
‘Period Shame’ paints a grim story about how the majority of girls and women live in the heart of poverty and suffer continued indignity that deepens gender inequality. 26yrs into a democratic dispensation, economic and social inequality means that 30% of school-going girls do not have access to sanitary pads and pain management medicines for period pains, and miss as many as 50 school days a year.
‘Period Shame’ is calling out to government and society that it is a shame for such a state to continue and sanitary pads need to be made available for free everywhere as condoms are free. Before the end of 2020, free sanitary pads should at least be available in public schools and public clinics. Denying girls free sanitary pads is a form of gender-based violence that causes life long trauma.
Please watch and spread awareness of the few issues we raise. There are many more. Sign our petition to government and support our work to lobby for free sanitary pads and free pain management medicine for period pains.
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These discussions are necessary. As an activist that was highly vested in the #worthbleedingfor campaign back in uni that challenged the management to make sanitary pads accessible to students and workers... I see the need to have such discussions especially with young women. Menstruation should not be treated as taboo. And it starts with us, having open discussions like these to bring awareness.
Thank you for such content.
Women are very powerful. I think that's why people are afraid to talk about it. We have the power to create life. Men don't and they never will. We can opt out of conception once we know our cycle. Most men, not all, cannot accept the control we have
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It's very scary for a young girl. When I started, I would go to sleep and when I stood up in the morning, it would all come out. Very heavy. I tried to be normal, but I felt so much shame, yet I couldn't control it. I had lost all control of something. I can usually can figure stuff out, but you can't control it. Everybody has bowel movements, yet that's ok. Why is it so shameful
These discussions are necessary. As an activist that was highly vested in the #worthbleedingfor campaign back in uni that challenged the management to make sanitary pads accessible to students and workers... I see the need to have such discussions especially with young women. Menstruation should not be treated as taboo. And it starts with us, having open discussions like these to bring awareness.
Thank you for such content.
It's very scary for a young girl. When I started, I would go to sleep and when I stood up in the morning, it would all come out. Very heavy. I tried to be normal, but I felt so much shame, yet I couldn't control it. I had lost all control of something. I can usually can figure stuff out, but you can't control it. Everybody has bowel movements, yet that's ok. Why is it so shameful