by Eco Femme | Mar 2, 2019 | Blog, Culture
“Period. End of Sentence.” A 26 minute documentary that looks at women in an Indian village who are donated a sanitary pad-making machine. More recently, the film is making waves for having won an Oscar. source Clearly, it is changing times in India...
by Eco Femme | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Culture, Projects page.
“It is important to examine the language we use, or the language that we have been forbidden to use, and question how it is instrumental in constructing how we think about our body and self….When we don’t talk about menstruation, when we emphasise...
by Eco Femme | Feb 23, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Projects page.
Men in menstruation – are we addressing the elephant in the room? Conversations with men can reveal a lot… “Women never include us in menstruation matters. They talk in whispers and codes all the time” “A woman is impure during menstruation. I will not touch my...
by Eco Femme | Feb 12, 2018 | Blog, Culture
Continuing the conversation Padman: it hardly needs an introduction. The film, inspired by the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham, has punched a long overdue, pad sized hole in a subject typically defined by shame and silence: menstruation. After discovering...
by Eco Femme | Nov 7, 2017 | Blog, Eco Femme
Did you know that with every pad you buy, you contribute to subsidising the price of pads sold to economically disadvantaged women in India? Our Pads for Sisters programme was launched in 2013 to make our cloth pads economically accessible to women who...
