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Claremont Colleges

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2016

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Re-Coding Blood: Menstruation As Activism, Shayda Kafai Nov 2016

Re-Coding Blood: Menstruation As Activism, Shayda Kafai

The STEAM Journal

This reflection seeks to untangle the stigmatic ways we culturally frame menstruation. It explores the reasons why the FemCare industry and our contemporary culture position menstruation as abject and as embarrassment. It also offers contemporary strategies that can serve as activist modes of reframing the act and connotations associated with menstruation.