Why can’t we talk about periods? | Jen Gunter

Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. “It shouldn’t be an act of feminism to know how your body works,“ says gynecologist and author Jen Gunter. In this revelatory talk, she explains how menstrual shame silences and represses -- and leads to the spread of harmful misinformation and the mismanagement of pain. Declaring the era of the menstrual taboos over, she delivers a clear, much-needed lesson on the once-myster