“Miscarriage: A Common Loss, Yet an Untold Story”
BY MABI I DIDNOT KNOW HOW COMMON MISCARRIAGES WERE BECAUSE WE DON’T TALKABOUT IT . Michelle ObamaWe often see joyful pregnancy announcements and adorable reaction videos on Instagram. We hear stories of morning sickness, nausea, mood swings, backaches, and the journey through cesarean or natural deliveries. But rarely, whether on social media or in person, […]
“Motayeko” or “Dublyayeko” – The Nepali Icebreaker We Never Asked For
BY MABI I can often tell you from personal experience that a typical Nepali conversation, especially when you run into someone after a long time (coincidentally, not planned), starts with: “Kasto motayeko!” or “Kasto dublyayeko!” Why is this normal? Why do we treat someone’s body like a conversation starter? And if you try to set […]
What if men menstruated ? After all, the word itself contains men.
BY MABI Every time I think about menstruation, I can’t help but reflect on how I was raised to speak about it with hesitation like it was something shameful or secret. No one ever sat me down to tell me it’s normal, natural, and nothing to hide. Instead, silence surrounded it. And honestly, that silence […]
Menstrual Taboos: Awareness vs. Practice” – My ICFP Experience
I read somewhere on the internet, ‘We are drowning in information but starving forknowledge and wisdom,’ and felt this while I reminisced about one of the incidents thathappened during our ICFP(Integrated ConCurrent Field Practice) II. We have to studyPublic Health Anthropology and Behavior in the 4th semester, in which we are morefocused on knowing about […]