What are the multiple meanings of Menstrual Justice? How do these change when people with lived experience of marginalisation hold the mic?

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Much of the efforts and initiatives around menstrual health remain tokenistic and fail to address the lived experiences of menstrual stigma as a violation of human rights. Caste, class, ethnicity, religion, geography, gender, and sexual orientation decide whose concerns are heard when menstrual health and justice are discussed.  

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Safai Karmachari Andolan, Irise International, and PERIODS Project are collectively initiating Whose Menstruation, Whose Justice? Conversations across identities, borders, & contexts. This series of conversations with people marginalised by social constructs and intersectional identities, creates space for unlearning, new learnings, and building solidarity for menstrual justice across contexts, identities, and geographies. ​​

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• Safai Karmachari Andolan is a national movement in India for the eradication of manual scavenging. Through its National Feminist Platform, SKA challenges caste, patriarchy and untouchability with menstrual justice. 

• Irise International advances menstrual justice through programming, policy, and research in the UK, and through its sister organisation, IIEA, in East Africa. Its work focuses on education, advocacy, youth leadership and movement-building. 

• PERIODS is an interdisciplinary, transnational research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) that engages with menstruation in the context of human rights, gender justice, and social mobilisation.