menstruation

Talking about life after menopause

After watching the Netflix drama Bombay Begums recently, I was encouraged to see that mainstream cinema has started giving space to a female...

Welcome to suburbia

Meet Jyoti, the leader of a group of children who live on the outskirts of Kathmandu

Pratibha Tuladhar

Pandemic deepens period poverty

Period stigma has long blighted the lives of young women and girls in Nepal, but the pandemic is making things worse. If...

Yoga in the time of Covid-19

In July 2019 when I was 36, I wrote an article about how I struggled to believe that periods are not impure...

Tipping point on menstrual banishment in Nepal

It is when local women take the lead to end the practice that it is most effective

Marty Logan

“Menstruation is not private business, it is everyone’s business”

Menstruation in Nepal has become synonymous with chhaupadi, the tradition of banishing women to cowsheds for five days during their periods. The...

Their songs from the forest

Photographer Uma Bista’s exhibition Our Songs from the Forest is a gentle invitation into the remote mountains of Achham where we meet young...

Communicating to remove menstrual taboo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfdhBKEtsEGrowing up in Chitwan, Radha Paudel’s father used to tell her stories of faraway Jumla: how it took weeks to walk there,...

Nepal’s superwomen beat superstition

Media reports of the practice of chhaupadi are full of harrowing tales of suffering, and women dying of cold or suffocation during...

That time of the month

The practice of chhaupadi in which women in western Nepal are banished to cow sheds during their periods grabs a lot of media...

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