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She ran a marathon with her period and without a pad in protest | CLAUDIA
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If for some women menstruation is synonymous with embarrassment, definitely for Kiran Gandhiit’s not like this.
She prepared for a year to run in the London Marathon in April 2015. Kiran got her period right on the day of the competition and had two options: run with a tampon or not. She chose the second option.
Gandhi ran without a pad and took the opportunity to use it as a way to combat the shame and lack of position that women have when it comes to talking about their menstruation. According to her, women hide menstruation as if it “does not exist”.
The marathon took place in April, but his story just started to go viral and hit the internet. At the time, she wrote about her experience in a blog on Medium: “As I ran, I thought about how women and men are socialized to pretend that periods don’t exist. By making it more difficult to talk about it, we women are unable to talk about it at work, and it is not possible to recognize the social differences between women and men that must be recognized and established as acceptable. Why don’t women complain or talk about their bodily functions? Why can’t anyone see this happening? And why is this an important issue? It’s important because it happens to everyone and it happens now.”
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In an interview with Cosmopolitan, the 26-year-old said she made the decision in the form of a protest so that women are not ashamed of menstruation. And he credits the fact that this is a “problem” with misogyny: “I have the view that if men had a menstrual period – because we are in a society that privileges the male – that the rules would be different in the workplace, and that social norms would allow men to talk about it freely at work, at home, with friends,” she said.
In contrast, the two most important men in Gandhi’s life – his brother and his father – were in the marathon and followed the race. She didn’t know how they would react, but when she got to them at the nine mile mark, they only bothered to hug her and take pictures.
On her personal blog, she wrote that running the marathon this way was a challenge and wanted to send a message to the world.
“If there is one way to transcend oppression, it is to run a marathon any way you want to,” he wrote. “Where the stigma of a woman’s period is irrelevant, and we can rewrite the rules as we choose.”
And complete:
“Everyone was running with a personal mission. And all of a sudden I felt like it was completely appropriate for me to run my marathon on my period.”
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