In Dialogue: Diva Founder And CEO Carinne Chambers-Saiani On Entrepreneurship And Fighting For Women’s Rights

It wasn’t too long ago that menstruation was subject to strict taboo. From blue liquid in commercials for tampons and pads (with wings) to the very real problem of young girls getting their first period and assuming something was horribly, horribly wrong because nobody had bothered to talk to them about what their bodies do, periods were not discussed. The merest acknowledgment that periods exist could provoke the most extreme reactions—anger, disgust, accusations of impropriety—encouraged in large part by media assuming male audiences. But this taboo has real and ongoing consequences, mystifying the most natural thing in the world and cloaking our bodies in a veil of secrets.