Born: 1998 (circa), Nepal (assumed)
Died: 2019
Country most active: Nepal
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra’s book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work.
Even menstruation, a monthly occurrence for billions of people around the world, has been used to isolate and undermine women. Instances of period stigma range from the comical—NASA engineers asking Sally Ride if 100 tampons were enough for a week-long trip—to the life-threatening—confining women to menstruation huts every month because they are considered unclean. Twenty-one-year-old Parbati Rawat died of smoke inhalation in a small, windowless menstruation hut in Nepal in 2019.