Talking Red
In my home, generally, it's me who goes out to bring groceries. But during my menstruation period, nobody allows me to go out to fetch oil, vegetables, milk or any other groceries. Me, going weak on those weeks, happens to be the reason but no, it's because the purity of the groceries happens to vanish if I touch them during my monthly cycle, and those materials are forbidden to be taken to the kitchen. I can't enter the kitchen and have to rely on my other family members to get water or foods on those days. I can go no nearer to the prayer room. I feel sick about this tradition and none of my family members listen my voice against it, just because they fear the society may boycott me. This surely is a mutual feeling of many women and girls in my society, all unspoken. But what if all the inner voices come out and unite? Revolution is possible and I'm optimistic about it.
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