Can a small Australian company help bring down one of Western society's most entrenched taboos?
We’re talking, of course, about the attempt to get rid of the stigma associated with women’s vaginas.
The centuries-long fight against women's shame has included, in recent years, pants in the shape of labia, worn by American singer Janelle Monae, centre, in the video for her hit song, Pynk.Badu's incense sold out. Monae's song, and video, were a hit. Aboah continues to grace the covers of. But – no surprise – far from being rid of stigma, women and their vaginas continue to be shamed, as they have been for hundreds of years.
British model Adwoa Aboah, seen here at a Paris Fashion Week event in 2018, is one of numerous celebrities to have championed the movement to remove the stigma associated with menstruation.But for Chong, period shaming is the latest feminist battleground. Countless campaigns like #RedDotChallenge and #FreePeriod posts have aimed to eradicate the stigma associated with menstruation, as has the increasingly common practice of “freebleeding” . Kiran Gandhi, former drummer for British rapper M.I.A. “freebled” during the 2015 London marathon, in order to say, as she put it later, “it does exist, and we overcome it every day”.
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