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Thousands of young women agree with Sinu Joseph, who believes that talking about your period is the first step in taking care of a woman's health and hygiene. Do you?
Thousands of young women agree with Sinu Joseph, who believes that talking about your period is the first step in taking care of a woman’s health and hygiene. Do you?
She went from being a volunteer who taught spoken English at a local government school to educating over 6000 girls in Karnataka on menstrual health, in a span of three years. For Sinu Joseph, this involves approaching the topic of menstrual health and hygiene amongst both girls and women in a personal rather than academic manner, and influencing mindsets that consider menstruation and menstrual cycles unhealthy.
In this refreshing conversation over chai with Lakshmi, Sinu shares her experiences of working in rural India, empowering women, and including men in the dialogue. In addition to speaking to girls and educating them, Sinu has also created a regional animated film that will help girls understand their own bodies, and how to take care of their health better. Her motivation is the need to lower health risks that accompany lack of information.
To me, one of the things that stands out from the conversation is this statement: “I’ve done training sessions in corporate spaces, and these educated women cannot talk about their own period. That is what needed to change”.
Before you watch the episode, take a look at these facts that set the context to Sinu’s work and help you understand existing problems better.
70 percent of Indian women cannot afford sanitary pads
Lack of knowledge on menstrual health and hygiene leads to health risks such as prolonged UTI’s and in the long run, cervical cancer – which is the leading cancer amongst Indian women, killing over 73 thousand annually
Now, watch the episode!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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