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Periodical
Streaming on Hot Docs at Home
Friday, May 5, 2023 12:00 AM
Enough with "being on the rag," ditch "Aunt Flo," and forget "the change," it's time to start treating menstruation and menopause with some respect. Activists, doctors and celebrities deconstruct sexist junk science and share the truth: your period is an asset and not "the curse."
Streaming is only available in Canada
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  Showing with closed or open captions. The intro and Q&A on April 30 will include ASL interpretation.
The human menstrual cycle lasts an average of 28 days, but the junk science, tasteless humour and derogatory thinking surrounding it has endured for decades. Are there any positive references to menopause? Cricket sounds... Euphemistic phrases like "a visit from Aunt Flo," "riding the cotton pony," and "the curse" are meant to describe the bodily function in popular culture inoffensively, but it is time to treat menstruation and menopause with the basic factual respect and non-sexist representation they deserves. While Viagra prescriptions are covered by medical insurance, activists must lobby to have tampons and pads re-classified as medically required equipment to exempt their cost from taxation. Doctors, celebrities and athletes are likewise calling out paternalistic taboos by promoting feminist-centred research and adopting period-positive language loudly and in public. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Lina Lyte Plioplyte (Advanced Style, 2014) finally gives menstruation and menopause the red-carpet treatment by letting Gloria Steinem, Megan Rapinoe, Naomi Watts and Anna Konkle lead "the talk" everyone should get from now on. Myrocia Watamaniuk
Streaming online May 5-9. Streaming is only available in Canada.
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