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Menstruation is a natural and healthy bodily experience that is stigmatized within our society. Our culture has branded menstruation as a “taboo topic” which not only makes it difficult to discuss outside of confined spaces, such as with a doctor or counselor, but hinders those in need of support and resources from getting the materials and education they need. Everyone deserves a dignified period. In order to achieve that, we need to end the stigma around menstruation. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/613faf90d739176689554906/t/615a14647470451cef9f2ca3/1633293434258/2021-DonationDrive-v1.jpg Home - 2021 Donation Drive Dr. Kartch’s Fall 2021 Gender Communication class is co-sponsoring a virtual donation drive in order to raise monetary donations that our community partner, Better Period, will distribute to a number of their local partners, including the Fresno State Student Cupboard and the Marjaree Mason Center, that serve populations that experience period poverty. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/613faf90d739176689554906/t/6147570540521c01c31a9ec6/1632065290202/Falon-Iconography-v4-2.png Home https://www.falonkartch.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-10-07 https://www.falonkartch.com/current-campaign daily 0.75 2021-10-07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/613faf90d739176689554906/t/6148f41d4692834cd5c789f6/1632171063641/IMG_5499.jpg Current Campaign https://static1.squarespace.com/static/613faf90d739176689554906/t/61475abe62bc3c110eebca67/1632066249034/giselle-hernandez-sq.jpg Current Campaign - “I believe the place of social action work is in the culture. When I started the Better Period drive and saw the positive impact we had from the faculty and students at Fresno State, I thought about the culture. Student created a culture where we could donate any period products and no one was judging.” — COMM 120 Student, Fall 2019 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/613faf90d739176689554906/t/6147598435d33358f77c68c7/1632066515079/Falon-Iconography-v4-2.png Current Campaign https://static1.squarespace.com/static/613faf90d739176689554906/t/61475c9980ae6f0ae066e096/1632066730505/natracare-vrUANq_TcSc-unsplash.jpg Current Campaign https://www.falonkartch.com/about daily 0.75 2021-10-03 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/613faf90d739176689554906/t/614757520953ed04a0377924/1632065407039/Falon+Kartch.jpg About - About Dr. Kartch Dr. Kartch teaches Undergraduate and Graduate courses in social and personal relationships and has also presented invited lecturers, at both the Undergraduate and Graduate level, on qualitative inquiry and data analysis. Dr. Kartch is particularly interested in the use of service-learning as a means of promoting student engagement with the local community and has worked with local community partners, most notably the grassroots initiative Better Period, to address menstrual stigma and period poverty in the Central Valley through her Gender Communication course. https://www.falonkartch.com/our-partners daily 0.75 2021-10-03 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/613faf90d739176689554906/t/615a0bf55b5ff4367a4e04de/1633291272393/qt%3Dq-95.png Our Partners - Better Period Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://www.falonkartch.com/menstrual-stigma daily 0.75 2021-10-07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/613faf90d739176689554906/t/615a10eeb40fdd0becc1bab7/1633292546268/tj-holowaychuk-S_wlhL09ZD8-unsplash.jpg Menstrual Stigma - Menstruation is natural. Menstruation, while a natural and healthy bodily experience seen as signaling one’s transition into puberty, as well as an integral part of female identity, is stigmatized and identified as a “taboo topic” that can be shame-inducing. Concealment, secrecy, and shame reinforce menstruation as a topic that is largely “off limits.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/613faf90d739176689554906/t/615a11305dff477714e7b9bb/1633292602281/sophie-dale-RQC24udB4Zo-unsplash.jpg Menstrual Stigma - Restricting the conversation restricts access. Branding menstruation as taboo not only creates emotional and psychological discomfort for menstruators when navigating close relationships and concealment norms, they also place them in situations that can be physically harmful and even dangerous. Evidence suggests menstruators feel social pressure to conceal their periods in a range of interactions. This is called a “concealment imperative.” This highlights the degree to which menstruators are socialized to self-police their concealment practices. The internalization of this need to conceal is a form of social control that reinforces patriarchy and oppresses menstruators. The study of menstruation is not inherently the study of women. Rather, menstruation is the study of a biological experience that occurs in some bodies. Anyone who communicates about menstruation, whether it be in one’s family system or in an academic chapter about menstrual taboos, is engaging in a communicative act that conveys their moral commitments. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/613faf90d739176689554906/t/615a1165b40bec28e04c48c3/1633292662181/rene-porter-M6w1m_wukDM-unsplash.jpg Menstrual Stigma - Menstrual stigma affects everyone. Menstrual stigma is a human issue. The concealment imperative has long-standing consequences for menstruators’ social relationships, health, and relationships with their own bodies and socialization into this imperative starts early in life. 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