The Menstrual Health and Gender Justice Working Group hosted a film screening and critical panel on the Oscar-winning documentary, Period: End of Sentence. Grad fellow for the working group, Laura Charney, discusses the analysis and criticism of the ideas established in the film by the panelists and attendees in her latest blog post for RightsViews.

Charney writes, “Menstrual health research is often obstructed in shoddy statistics, lack of thorough qualitative data, and approaches to international development that favour implementing behavioural changes based on generalized surveys… They critiqued Period: End of Sentence on the basis of its reliance on unreliable research, perpetuation of harmful stereotypes, and iteration of a global north saviour complex.”

Read the full blog post here.