Homedpo

Introduction

Hello, my name is Divya Popat and I am a student in PJHC371 in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022. I am a senior studying Biosciences with a PJHC minor, and am particularly interested in the ways that systemic oppression manifest in health disparities.

Proposed Topic Updates Spring 2022

After discussing with Dr. Ward the harms of using food apartheid as a term, I am most likely going to do my project on the Food Justice Movement article. Currently in the Wikipedia article on food deserts and the Food Justice Movement, race is only mentioned in a small paragraph of the article. Scholars have recently expounded upon the inherently racialized nature of food deserts, even going to the extent of labeling certain neighborhoods as experiencing a more extreme food desert called “food apartheid” or food segregation. For that reason, I would like to restructure and edit the Food Justice Movement article to adequately illustrate the systemic and racialized food segregation experience.

Proposed Topic and Citations Fall 2021

Topic Summary

Nowhere on Wikipedia is there any allusion to menstrual inequities, or even terms like “period poverty”. While stigma is covered, menstruation is not an equitable biological process, and brings to light countless intersectionality issues as we strive for a world in which everyone has access to period products. While there is an article on the tampon tax, nowhere on Wikipedia is there a mention of: 1) period poverty and how it unfairly impacts poor communities 2) the inherently racialized experience of menstruation, particularly for Black menstruators 3) the harmful impacts and struggles uniquely faced by transgender menstruators. For this reason, I hope to create a subsection on the Menstruation page, with hyperlinked sections to current, existing article like “Incarceration of Women in the US”, “Tampon tax”, and “Women’s Health”.

For my Wikipedia article, I have made revisions to the “Menstruation” article. I added two primary chunks of information: a section about Activism and a section about Menstrual Inequity. Previously, the section on Activism was two sentences and solely discussed Nadya Okamoto’s accomplishments. I split the section into two components, one that highlighted the rise of menstrual activism and another that discusses more modern implications. For the Menstrual Inequity section, there are three main injustices I wanted to address: socioeconomic, gender, and racial.

Sandbox Link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Homedpo/Menstruation?preload=Template%3ADashboard.wikiedu.org_draft_template

Citations

Allsworth, Jenifer E., Jennifer Clarke, Jeffrey F. Peipert, Megan R. Hebert, Amy Cooper, and Lori A. Boardman. “The Influence of Stress on the Menstrual Cycle among Newly Incarcerated Women.” Women's Health Issues. Elsevier, June 7, 2007. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104938670700028X?casa_token=1e0m2nYbcDcAAAAA%3AMXXle5MoXWuRhlsKcLO6czKlYUE6zm_CpaVA9HkA24fwJzYUBLRaWut7IBZW3nF7QNRQssGXb_Y.

Bobel, Chris, and Breanne Fahs. “From Bloodless Respectability to Radical Menstrual Embodiment: Shifting Menstrual Politics from Private to Public.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45, no. 4 (2020): 955–83. https://doi.org/10.1086/707802.

Dinkel, Shirley, and Katie Schmidt. “Health Education Needs of Incarcerated Women.” Sigma Theta Tau International. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, April 22, 2014. https://sigmapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jnu.12079.

Enders, Sheila R. “Working to Improve Health Care for Incarcerated Women.” Interrupted LifeExperiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States, 2010, 259–63. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520252493.003.0053.

Inga Winkler is a lecturer in human rights at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and Director of the Working Group on Menstrual Health & Gender Justice in the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University. “Human Rights Shine a Light on Unmet Menstrual Health Needs... : Obstetrics & Gynecology.” LWW. Accessed October 4, 2021. https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Citation/2019/02000/Human_Rights_Shine_a_Light_on_Unmet_Menstrual.1.aspx.

Jefferson, Laurie and Betsey Smith. "A Health Program for Black Incarcerated Women." Sage 2, no. 2 (Fall, 1985): 60.

Martinez, L. Virginia. “Racial Injustices: The Menstrual Health Experiences of African American and Latina Women.” Digital Commons at Salem State University. Accessed October 4, 2021. https://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/honors_theses/302/.

“Mental Health Challenges for Incarcerated African-American Women.” Mental Health Care in the African-American Community, 2013, 123–42. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203050972-16.

Schnittker, Jason, Michael Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen. “Incarceration and the Health of the African American Community1: Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race.” Cambridge Core. Cambridge University Press, April 15, 2011. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/incarceration-and-the-health-of-the-african-american-community1/634082926AD197DE0A2AD71B87C62E27.

Winkler, Inga. “Human Rights Shine a Light on Unmet Menstrual Health Needs and Menstruation at the Margins.” LWW. Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Accessed October 1, 2021. https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Citation/2019/02000/Human_Rights_Shine_a_Light_on_Unmet_Menstrual.1.aspx.

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