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December 24, 2022 0 Comments

Top 5 Periods & Poetry: Personal Submissions

In the last years, we have welcomed guest bloggers from all over the world.Time for some shortlists.This time we proudly present you our best read submissions in the category Periods & Poetry. Five beautiful poems from India and Nepal. (…)

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September 3, 2022 0 Comments

The Mustard Petticoat

Indian writer and poet Sonali Sharma wrote ‘The Mustard Petticoat’ – a beautiful poem about period myths in India, where girls and women sometimes are sent off to period huts during their menstruation. ‘We walk barefoot to the hut, why?’ (…)

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June 13, 2021 0 Comments

Say it PERIOD

‘Remove the stigma, not the name!’ Sushmita Das has written an empowering and powerful poem about tackling period shame through words. (…)

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October 8, 2020 9 Comments

Monthly Celebration

 ‘More than the pain, what gets me panicky, is the bloody stain,’ says talented poet and social entrepeneur Pragya Gupta from India. She wrote a beautiful and empowering poem about the shame that surrounds our monthly bleeding. (…)

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August 8, 2019 1 Comment

Period. Let its vastness be undisguised

‘How can you stop something that is so flowing. That feels so real?’ We proudly present a breathtaking and striking period poem by Dutch Christel Janssen, about passing on period shame. Generation after generation. (…)

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July 25, 2018 0 Comments

The menstruating lady

‘She bloomed as a woman, With her new breasts budding she saw –, Her first blood running between her thighs.’ A poem by Indian blogger Rimli Bhattacharya. (…)

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March 21, 2018 0 Comments

Poem in Praise of Menstruation

‘If there is a river, braver than this, coming and coming in a surge, of passion, of pain if there is.’ An ode to menstruation, by Lucille Clifton. To celebrate #WorldPoetryDay.