Menstruar es la única sangre no violenta que produce una persona, como parte de su proceso biológico.

Y, sí! ahora vienen varios peros, cómo entiendes que es un proceso tan tuyo, cuándo una vez que menstruas la sociedad tiene mentalizado que YA eres mujer y estás lista para ser madre, cuándo en la mayoría de ocasiones no conoces tu cuerpo!
Entonces, antes qué somos? y después qué somos?.

La educación sexual está enfocada en la abstinencia o en llenarle a la mujer de una gran cantidad de métodos anticonceptivos que muchas veces fallan y sin tomar en cuenta todas alteraciones hormonales que eso causa. Cuando ella puede tener un embarazo en 9 meses, mientras que un hombre podría generar un embarzo diario duranto esos 9 meses.

Una mujer menstrúa un promedio de 30 años, yo ya llevo unos 15 y no quiero tener hijxs.

Hace 4 años, cuando empecé a utilizar la copa menstrual toda la dinámica cambió, y me hice amiga de mi menstruación. Pero antes de la copa deseaba tanto tener una menopasuia "prematura" para no sangrar más.


Estoy menstruando

A photographic series where you find voices, faces, spaces around the world, in a virtual journey.

Pandemic invaded the whole world, but each person has the own way to live it and feel coronavirus, of expressing their inner and outer self, in the different corners of the planet.

During coronavirus it is not possible to travel in the “normal mood”, nor you can hug friends or family as we used to, but it is possible to have new experiences through technology. So, I thought I would travel around the world a little bit and meet new people. Of course, I didn’t leave my house, or even my room, to arrive other countries, other continents.

Maybe, quality is not the best one, so I call “visiting cards” as Disderí call his portraits which were maden in a studio, the pictures were madden in a very peculiar size 54mm x 89mm, I take this the name “visiting” because this travel becomes in a visit, time changes, time comes back, I do not use chemical, but I have limits because of technical part.

Despite all the above, something wonderful happened… I have met beautiful people who have revealed a little bit of their universes, allowed me to go to the special place of their home. They expressed their emotions. Many of them agreed that, during the confinement, they had more time for themselves, their partners, or their important members of their lives and they thank it. There was also an intense feeling of missing the physical contact, like a hug from mom, or greeting the neighbor at the door and somehow going through a time of tension and calm.

Virtually I met a traveler neighbor of Peru, I arrived to faraway Indonesia, I passed through Germany, Poland, Argentina, Netherlands, Denmark, Costa Rica, and each place, a human being living corona time. I applied a particular way of taking photos, which on this occasion was not the purpose of the giant photograph, it was not the point.

Thanks to all people who share their time and universe with me.

Universes

The intention of this series is to show people as sensitive beings. The impulse that people have to express their freedom, their emotions, I somehow rescue it from some of the mental and emotional connections of my characters through self-portraiture.
During the confinement, many moods and thoughts manifested themselves, which perhaps, before, we didn’t know in ourselves. Or we simply didn’t have the opportunity to understand them.
Some characters knew depression or fear, others were tired of confinement, while some took this time to reinvent themselves, to deal with their demons, but some lived in hope. It’s not about judging, it’s about respect, maybe you don’t fully understand the people around you, or yourself, but the valid thing is to achieve a harmonious coexistence.
In short, it has been a difficult time for some, relieved of the daily pressure, away from home, for others a time of calm, the truth is that each person has a story and therefore their way of adapting or not adapting to these drastic situations where “normality” has changed.

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