Romani Communities
and Menstruation
PHOTO BY - BEE HUGHES
This study investigates how gender and ethnicity-based discrimination intersect to shape the menstrual experiences of Romani communities in Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on Hungary. Despite extensive evidence of systemic marginalisation affecting Roma communities’ access to health, education, housing, water, and sanitation, the intersection of discrimination based on gender and ethnicity remains underaddressed.
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Menstruation
and Caste
Jen Lewis, Menstrual Designer, Rob Lewis, Photographer. Copyright 2026. Beauty in Blood. http://www.beautyinblood.com/
The study examines how caste-based discrimination and menstrual stigma compound to shape the experiences of women in India. Although research on menstruation within Hindu cultural contexts is extensive, it rarely addresses casteism or the specific challenges faced by Dalit communities. Dalit feminist activists argue that mainstream menstrual health campaigns often overlook how caste inequality influences menstrual experiences.
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Trans, Non-Binary and Gender Diverse Menstruators
PHOTO BY - BEE HUGHES
The discourse around menstruation remains intricately gendered towards the lives, bodies and experiences of cis gender girls and women. We seek to challenge this bias by centering the bodies, lives and experiences of transgender, gender non-binary and gender diverse individuals whose menstrual experiences are often overlooked and marginalized and will consider implications for movement building, advocacy, activism.
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Menstruation in Conditions of Informality
PHOTO BY - SEMKELISIWE NCUBE
This study centres the menstrual experiences of people living in South Africa’s informal settlements. We examine how menstruating individuals navigate the embodied, spatial, and relational dimensions of menstruation and how communities develop collective responses to menstrual injustices, aiming to analyse how menstruation becomes a focal point for community mobilisation, advocacy, and demands for improved living conditions.
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The Global Menstrual Movement
Petra Paul, Menstruarte: The Menstrual World View from Space (2015), (Via Wikimedia Commons)
Menstruation has emerged on the global human rights agenda, but human rights have often been reduced to a slogan. Simultaneously, many grassroots groups turn to more expansive conceptions of human rights. We examine how these evolving approaches might strengthen a more inclusive and justice-oriented global menstrual movement and in turn inform our understanding of human rights.
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