Woman Slaps Period Pads All Over Her Town For A Very Important Reason
In September, Elonë Kastratia noticed a tweet with a powerful statement:
imagine if men were as disgusted with rape as they are with periods— #StayStrongLeah (@cutequeer96) September 29, 2014
The message got Kastratia thinking. And with International Women's Day being celebrated March 8, she decided to print that feminist message and a few others on sanitary napkins and post them on traffic signs all over Karlsruhe, Germany, where she lives.
"I'm not sure if its illegal, but seriously I don't care [because] they are easy to [take off]," she wrote on Instagram.
Today A photo posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ e l o n ë (@elona_x) on Mar 8, 2015 at 3:23pm PDT
"I was waiting for a good moment, and I decided [International Women's Day] would be the best time to do it," she told The Huffington Post. "The people on the street looked at it and thought about it! I wanted to make people aware of problems, and I wanted to provoke."
Her message resonated far beyond Karlsruhe. One photo she posted to Tumblr has been seen hundreds of thousands of times.
"I never thought that it would go [viral] like this," she said. "I wanted to only provoke the people in the city because there is so much sexism."
today i shared some of those in the city, im not sure if its illegal but seriously i dont care bc they are easy to took of haha. I think its a good way to make attention on it. #feminism A photo posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ e l o n ë (@elona_x) on Mar...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news