The Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group fellows Inga Winkler, Chris Bobel, and Nancy Reame hosted the “Menstruation at the Margins” workshop at the Fondation Brocher in Hermance, Switzerland from December 10th-13th, 2019. Research Fellow for the working group and Staff Associate at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Purvaja Kavattur, reflects on her experiences at the workshop in her latest post on the working group’s blog.

Kavattur writes that, focusing on the menstrual health needs of marginalized populations “reminds us that the way we ask questions may not represent the experiences of everyone, especially those at the margins,” and that we should “sharpen [our] commitment to ensure that the menstrual movement does not leave those at the margins behind.”

Read the full blog post here.