I BLEED

I believe a collective healing happens when people from that collective share their stories out loud, when the story no longer remains untold, hushed, and forgotten.

For many of the women I interviewed, no one had asked them about the story of their first period, it was a forgotten story one not to be brought up…

I was honoured to hear them tell their stories for the first time.

This collection of first period stories, I see it as a healing circle, but also as an archive of stories for those who have not yet stepped into their cycle.

There is a power and beauty in sharing our stories….

WANT TO SHARE YOU 1st PERIOD STORY?

Sharing connects us to each other, and has the power to bind us and heal us.

There are two way to go about it.

You can either send me a video of around 2-3min, looking straight into the camera and sharing your first period story.

Or you can send me a picture of you around the time you got you first period along with your written story.

I believe a collective healing happens when people from that collective share their stories out loud, when the story no longer remains untold, hushed, and forgotten.

For many of the women I interviewed, no one had asked them about the story of their first period, it was a forgotten story one not to be brought up…

I was honoured to hear them tell their stories for the first time.

This collection of first period stories, I see it as a healing circle, but also as an archive of stories for those who have not yet stepped into their cycle.

There is a power and beauty in sharing our stories….

WANT TO SHARE YOU 1st PERIOD STORY?

Sharing connects us to each other, and has the power to bind us and heal us.

There are two way to go about it.

You can either send me a video of around 2-3min, looking straight into the camera and sharing your first period story.

Or you can send me a picture of you around the time you got you first period along with your written story.

In this episode I explore the way homeopathy understands and deals with the menstrual cycle. I meet with Dr Javed Hingora. Dr Javed is a leading homeopath based in Dubai. I first met him 10 years go when I was dealing with some emotional problems and was advised to seek help from an homeopath. I didn’t know much about homeopathy but the sessions with him changed me...and I found myself aligned with the natural philosophy of homeopathy.

With 18 years of experience in the field, Dr Javed Hingora has been pivotal in helping thousands of patients from over 100 countries to heal naturally from various ailments and conditions.

I believe a collective healing happens when people from that collective share their stories out loud, when the story no longer remains untold, hushed, and forgotten.

For many of the women I interviewed, no one had asked them about the story of their first period, it was a forgotten story one not to be brought up…

I was honoured to hear them tell their stories for the first time.

This collection of first period stories, I see it as a healing circle, but also as an archive of stories for those who have not yet stepped into their cycle.

There is a power and beauty in sharing our stories….

WANT TO SHARE YOU 1st PERIOD STORY?

Sharing connects us to each other, and has the power to bind us and heal us.

There are two way to go about it.

You can either send me a video of around 2-3min, looking straight into the camera and sharing your first period story.

Or you can send me a picture of you around the time you got you first period along with your written story.

I believe a collective healing happens when people from that collective share their stories out loud, when the story no longer remains untold, hushed, and forgotten.

For many of the women I interviewed, no one had asked them about the story of their first period, it was a forgotten story one not to be brought up…

I was honoured to hear them tell their stories for the first time.

This collection of first period stories, I see it as a healing circle, but also as an archive of stories for those who have not yet stepped into their cycle.

There is a power and beauty in sharing our stories….

WANT TO SHARE YOU 1st PERIOD STORY?

Sharing connects us to each other, and has the power to bind us and heal us.

There are two way to go about it.

You can either send me a video of around 2-3min, looking straight into the camera and sharing your first period story.

Or you can send me a picture of you around the time you got you first period along with your written story.

While doing some research I came across an author who resonated with me ,Chris Bobel, a writer, the president of the society for the menstrual cycle research and an associate professor of women’s gender sexuality studies at Umass. I travel to Boston and drive outside of the city to meet her in her beautiful home. We sit down and have a nice filter coffee and talk about the importance of addressing the menstrual stigma around periods, the links between menstruation and gender, and the impact of body literacy beyond what society and the structure of capitalism think of our body.

Chris Bobel is interested, most broadly, in the social construction of embodiment, and the diverse efforts of actors to effect social change especially around issues that are stigmatized and otherwise marginalized.She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies [due out in 2020], and she is at work on a new ethnographic project exploring contemporary activism inspired by grief and trauma.Chris is a fellow of the working group on Menstrual Health and Gender Justice at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference,  a member of the Board of Representatives of the Consortium for Graduate Studies of Gender, Women, Sexuality and Culture and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Signs and Women’s Reproductive Health.Chris is often consulted by the mainstream media about the rapidly growing global menstrual activist movement.For a complete list of her publications and public intellectual engagements, see https://works.bepress.com/chris_bobel/

Find her on Twitter at ChrisBobel

I believe a collective healing happens when people from that collective share their stories out loud, when the story no longer remains untold, hushed, and forgotten.

For many of the women I interviewed, no one had asked them about the story of their first period, it was a forgotten story one not to be brought up…

I was honoured to hear them tell their stories for the first time.

This collection of first period stories, I see it as a healing circle, but also as an archive of stories for those who have not yet stepped into their cycle.

There is a power and beauty in sharing our stories….

WANT TO SHARE YOU 1st PERIOD STORY?

Sharing connects us to each other, and has the power to bind us and heal us.

There are two way to go about it.

You can either send me a video of around 2-3min, looking straight into the camera and sharing your first period story.

Or you can send me a picture of you around the time you got you first period along with your written story.

I believe a collective healing happens when people from that collective share their stories out loud, when the story no longer remains untold, hushed, and forgotten.

For many of the women I interviewed, no one had asked them about the story of their first period, it was a forgotten story one not to be brought up…

I was honoured to hear them tell their stories for the first time.

This collection of first period stories, I see it as a healing circle, but also as an archive of stories for those who have not yet stepped into their cycle.

There is a power and beauty in sharing our stories….

WANT TO SHARE YOU 1st PERIOD STORY?

Sharing connects us to each other, and has the power to bind us and heal us.

There are two way to go about it.

You can either send me a video of around 2-3min, looking straight into the camera and sharing your first period story.

Or you can send me a picture of you around the time you got you first period along with your written story.

*** This interview is in French****

In this episode I meet with Gerard, a writer and literature professor at the University Saint Joseph in Lebanon and the director of the University for all which my parents have been attending passionately. I meet him at my parents house for a coffee where we casually discuss the influence of literature and tales on our current views of periods.

Born in Beirut, in 1966, Gerard Bejjani is a litterature professor at the University Saint Joseph, and the academic director of the Université pour Tous. Gerard is also researcher and a writer and and a Chevalier dans l’ordre des palmes académiques.  You can find some of his books here

In this episode I meet with Gerard, a writer and literature professor at the University Saint Joseph in Lebanon and the director of the University for all which my parents have been attending passionately. I meet him at my parents house for a coffee where we casually discuss the influence of literature and tales on our current views of periods.

Born in Beirut, in 1966, Gerard Bejjani is a litterature professor at the University Saint Joseph, and the academic director of the Université pour Tous. Gerard is also researcher and a writer and and a Chevalier dans l’ordre des palmes académiques.  You can find some of his books here