Politics of 'period poverty' and what needs to be done

Student and activist Valentine Ndimu. [File, Standard]

"Anything you can do I can do bleeding", read the message emblazoned on Senator Gloria Orwoba's t-shirt.

For years, even millennia, societal shame and objectification towards women's bodies was silently condoned and normalized. You would imagine that with the independence, and modernization of the state, including the rebirth of our country in 2010 a lot in this regard would have changed.