Talking about it is often taboo. In France, about 15.5 million people between the ages of 13 and 50 menstruate, according to a parliamentary report on menstruation, in 2020. This represents, on average, 38 years in life. On the occasion of the International Day of the Child, of their rights, on 11 October, the association Ground rules start an online petition periodemoji.org, asking for an explicit period emoji to be created. He would be represented by white panties with a bloodstain. The association, which fights against menstrual precariousness, hopes that the invisibility of this natural phenomenon will end with this symbol. Maud Leblon, director of the International Rules association, is the host of this episode of the podcast “Minute Papillon! “.
“Having simple tools to talk freely about periods”
“Precisely because we don’t represent [la culotte tachée de sang] that we find it dirty, Maud Leblon points out in this interview. If everyone were used to seeing it, if we talked about it more among ourselves (…), these would probably be less problematic situations. And girls probably wouldn’t miss school for fear of being faced with this, having a bloodstain on their pants, having their sports teacher tell them to go for the laps at the stadium, even if he’s doubled over. “
“It is very important to make things exist, to have simple tools suitable for young people to speak freely about the rules and concretely reduce discrimination,” adds Maud Leblon. Hear the rest of the exchange with the Association Director Ground Rules in the player above.
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