Menstruation: how to break this taboo in the classroom | Chella Quint

My #periodpositive project is about boys and girls discussing reproductive health frankly, with humour – and undoing the damage done by femcare manufacturers’ language of shame

I don’t know about you, but I’m totally absorbed. I can barely contain myself. From Instagram’s double standards to taboo breaking in sport, frank talk about hormones, archaic tax laws, advocacy for homeless women, and the most innovative street art yet, there’s been an absolute deluge of menstruation in the media lately. (I make no apologies for these puns. Brace yourselves for more.) But is this it? Have we crested the wave? Have we reached saturation point? Should we consider this peak flow? Not yet. Not quite.

These stories are just a drop in the bucket. We need this kind of attitude to spread, and we can do it by sorting out menstruation education – in schools, at home, in public, for all ages and genders, and not just because menstruation and education are a catchy rhyme.

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