Postcards
International Menstruation Health Day 2025
3-Jun-2025
On International Menstrual Health Day 2025, Farah conducted a workshop on Period Matters at the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute. Participants engaged with different mediums of art, poetry and advertising depicting menstruation.
Book Club: Period Matters
28-May-2025
Book club held at the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute on 28th May 2025.
For this Menstrual Health Awareness Month, the book club explored the power of art in challenging period stigma.
Hillcrest Community Run
4-May-2025
The Annual Hillcrest Community Run was held this year on Sunday 4th May in support of the Panties with Purpose Campaign. The event was dedicated in memory of Mischa.
New books in South Asian Studies
27-Mar-2025
Farah is interviewed by Zana Mody, an English DPhil student at the University of Oxford who works on postcolonial Indian literature and art.
Period Tracking Apps: Reconstructing Bodies And Eroding Rights
24-Feb-2025
Currently, hardly any PTAs address the urgent sensitivity of menstrual data with regard to law enforcement in their privacy policies and offer safeguards for users’ data against legal threats.
Ramgarhia Youth Association Donation
14-Feb-2025
Ramgarhia Youth Association (RYA) visited Thika School for the Visually Impaired, “a day that reminded us of the power of kindness and community”, as the Association put it. They donated foodstuffs, a braille machine and 40 rims of braille paper as well as distributed 300 pairs of undergarments.
Bashali: a place of freedom
15-Jan-2025
In northern Pakistan, menstruating women can choose to retreat to a bashali, a sacred space only for women on their period or about to give birth.
Feminism is Humanism: Why Period Art Matters
15-Jan-2025
In 1970s, Judith Chicago was considered a radical artist. She explained: ‘I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that…feminism is humanism.’
Author Meet & Greet
3-Jul-2024
An exclusive interview with Farah Ahamed where she’ll share insights about her book and writing journey. This is a fantastic opportunity to delve into the diverse experiences of menstruation in South Asia, as explored in Farah’s anthology, and connect with other passionate readers. Zoom, 5th July 2024, 7.30-8.30pm. RSVP @bookreviewersclub
Men Explain Periods to Me
27-Sep-2023
My Ugandan friends have an expression, “Joke equals truth,” and it started as a joke. When my edited anthology Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia was published last year, my sister said to me, “Now every man who’ll ever read your book will know about your first period. Doesn’t that feel weird?” I laughed, but then I realized that, by being open about a subject I felt needed to be discussed more authentically, I’d lost my “privacy” about an intimate bodily experience…
Period Matters in Taiwan
15-Sep-2023
Very glad to see the book in the Taiwan Period Museum, and reach a new audience.
“Just added a gem to our collection. A heartfelt thanks to @farahahamed @panmacmillan for donating Period Matters – a deep dive into menstruation in South Asia.” twitter.com/periodequity_tw
The Barbie Phenomenon
7-Sep-2023
I was invited to participate on The Barbie Forum: A Feminist Legacy at the London Literary Salon as a panellist. Everyone had something to say about Barbie, and while many in the group had more positive responses to the film, I had my own reasons for not liking it.