“Once a machine is invented to check if it is ‘right time’ or not(menstruating or not), they will think about letting women enter the temple.” -Travancore Devaswom Board president Prayar Gopalakrishnan
Kerala’s Sabrimala temple does not allow women in the menstruating age, 10-50 years, from entering the temple. After his sexist statement outrage has been poured against him. A campaign against such menstruating taboos have been started on facebook named ‘Happy To Bleed’.
‘Happy To Bleed’ campaign has been started by Nikita Azad. She was so annoyed by the kind of patriarchy and sexism that prevails in our society. She started the campaign asking women to hold placards/sanitary napkins/charts saying Happy To Bleed, take their pictures, upload it to their profiles, and send it to us, in order to oppose the shame game played by patriarchal society since ages. The Facebook page of campaign says that it is a counter campaign launched against menstrual taboos, and sexism that women are subject to through it. It acknowledges menstruation as a natural activity which doesn’t need curtains to hide behind.
Nikita clears that the are not against the temple board but it has become the immediate reason of their campaign. Also their focus is identifying all forms of patriarchy and preparing themselves for struggle.
The campaign has been receiving a lot of positive response across all social media platform and #HappyToBleed became a trending topic on Twitter.
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