Tabú: Polémica por censura en Instagram a la imagen de una mujer menstruando

thank you @instagram for providing me with the exact response my work was created to critique. you deleted a photo of a woman who is fully covered and menstruating stating that it goes against community guidelines when your guidelines outline that it is nothing but acceptable. the girl is fully clothed. the photo is mine. it is not attacking a certain group. nor is it spam. and because it does not break those guidelines i will repost it again. i will not apologize for not feeding the ego and pride of misogynist society that will have my body in an underwear but not be okay with a small leak. when your pages are filled with countless photos/accounts where women (so many who are underage) are objectified. pornified. and treated less than human. thank you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ this image is a part of my photoseries project for my visual rhetoric course. you can view the full series at rupikaur.com ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ i bleed each month to help make humankind a possibility. my womb is home to the divine. a source of life for our species. whether i choose to create or not. but very few times it is seen that way. in older civilizations this blood was considered holy. in some it still is. but a majority of people. societies. and communities shun this natural process. some are more comfortable with the pornification of women. the sexualization of women. the violence and degradation of women than this. they cannot be bothered to express their disgust about all that. but will be angered and bothered by this. we menstruate and they see it as dirty. attention seeking. sick. a burden. as if this process is less natural than breathing. as if it is not a bridge between this universe and the last. as if this process is not love. labour. life. selfless and strikingly beautiful.

Una foto publicada por Rupi Kaur (@rupikaur_) el 24 de Mar de 2015 a la(s) 9:02 PDT

“A nadie parece importarle que aparezcan por todas partes mujeres desnudas o con poca ropa, como meros objetos sexualizados. Eso pasa en las redes sociales. Especialmente en Instagram”, acusó Kaur en la BBC Mundo, quien a través de su trabajo intenta reivindicar la normalidad de “la regla”, un “proceso natural de gran belleza”.

“Sangro cada mes para ayudar a que la humanidad sea posible. Mi vientre es el hogar de lo divino. Una fuente de vida para nuestra especie, tanto si yo elijo crearla como si no”, planteó.

Por ello, instó a las propias mujeres a no ser parte del tabú: “Nos apresuramos a esconder nuestras toallas y tampones cuando nos levantamos goteando sangre”.

“Deseo que la sociedad se pregunte por qué el tema de la menstruación los hace sentir tan incómodos. Quiero mostrar su ignorancia y su misoginia”, concluyó.