Q&A: Anita Diamant

摘要

How'd you get interested in this? I've written a lot about women's health issues. I had recently published some essays about women who died in menstrual tents in rural Nepal, and the need for menstrual justice world wide when Melissa Berton asked if I would beinterested in writing this book. Perfect timing. What is most important for ev-eryone to understand about the danger in stigmatizingperiods? When menstruation is stigmatized, women become second-class citizens,andtheir self-esteem suffers. (The same holds true for non-female-identified menstruators.) The curse is one of the oldest and most common euphemisms for menstruation, which makes a healthy function of human anat- omy into something shameful, polluting and even dangerous (toothers). Menstruation isn't a curse, butstigma is.