Women are now live tweeting their periods and it’s brilliant.
The #LiveTweetYourPeriod hashtag has been around since April, but has really taken off in the last week after an article written by Jenna Wortham for The New York Times Magazine.
In the piece, entitled ‘Our Bodies, Our Feeds’ Wortham writes that she hopes that by posting about the supposedly ‘taboo’ topic on social media, it will help ‘normalize, desexualize and destigmatize women’s reproductive health — a topic shrouded in shame for far too long.’
She adds: ‘Social media is saturated with images of hypersexualized women, but these are rarely considered as scandalous as content that dares to reveal how… Read the full story