Kavita Wankhade Head – Governance & Services, Associate Dean – School of Systems and Infrastructure
IIHS, India
Kavita Wankhade is an urban practitioner-researcher at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, and her work lies at the intersection of urban services, urban systems, and inclusion.
Articles written by Kavita Wankhade
Systemic shame surrounding menstruation is alive and thriving, everywhere
444 31. October 2023
This article was originally published on The News Minute on 28th May 2023, and has been republished/repurposed here with permission. Read the original article here.
As women, shame enters our being in many ways — when an older man leers at our barely-sprouted breasts, when we are body-shamed or slut-shamed, and sometimes even when our brilliance dazzles. The fault, we’re told, is always ours. For most of us, shame is an all-too-familiar companion, and all that differs are our coping mechanisms. But perhaps nothing shames us as much, as persistently, and for as long as the fact that we menstruate.
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