So here we are in 2020 with a ban on a #tampax ad, yet 20 years ago on this day women in Armagh jail were using menstrual blood as a weapon of resistance against state violence. See my article for more info: https://t.co/NMoTWkKydn pic.twitter.com/cFQwDOPRBR
— Theresa O’Keefe (@Theresa_OKeefe) July 29, 2020
This article (at link below) suggests that the use of menstrual blood in resisting the state is an act so subversive that it effectively disrupted staunchly entrenched gender norms in Northern Irish society prior to the height of the conflict. This in turn provoked the rise of a distinct form of feminism rooted within the republican movement.
Menstrual Blood as a Weapon of Resistance (Therese O’Keefe)
Yesterday: Complaints over ‘offensive’ Tampax tampon advert upheld (Irish Times)
I’d say that photo is as much 20 years old as I am.
1980
I bet the Morketing people for Tampax are high fiving today.
Make a cringy ad that people will complain.
Make the news when record complain and get plenty of coverage due to sensitivity of issue.
Well played.
Why does broadsheet give oxygen to these obviosuly unhinged people on twitter?
https://twitter.com/Theresa_OKeefe/status/1288463046579572736
She just called an advert for a tampon “trans-exclusionary”. Like WTF