Menstruation comes out of the closet. Banned from public conversation as something dirty and shameful, menstruation and its cessation, menopause, gain momentum in recent cultural production with new books, films and works of art.
Lupe Gómez, author of Pornografía and Os teus dedos na miña braga con regra ( Your fingers in my panties with a ruler), says her work is received with greater respect. “My poetry was, and continues to be, resounding, wild and libertarian. The verses were like haikus that can be considered political proclamations or mystical revelations”