Menstrupedia
Aditi Gupta, Tauhin Paul and Rajat Mittal have started Menstrupedia (an
online fun guide to periods) with a dream to change menstruation from a taboo
to a welcome transition of girls into womanhood and are working since 2010 to
create awareness. The website has three sections: the guide, Q&A and the
blog.
The experience of Menstrupedia is not only fun and engaging
but also a memorable one. Menstrupedia aims at delivering informative and
entertaining content through different media. Menstrupedia is a small but
definitive step to shatter the myths and misunderstandings surrounding
menstruation for ages.
They want to guide the young girls about their changing bodies through
a comic with stories adapted from real life situations. It must have required a
lot of research and study to come up with the best design for the comic. It is
indeed a mammoth task to make an educational yet entertaining comic book on
menstruation. They even have to make sure the comic is medically correct. They
tested the prototype of the magazine with young girls to make sure they aren’t feeling
shy in reading the comic.
The comic has beautifully illustrated characters
enacting situations to enlighten the young readers of the comic about staying
prepared and the best ways to manage their periods in different situations. The
comic is designed in such a way that it will certainly instill a positive attitude
among the readers and free them from the old menstrual myths. They have tried
to give a more real and practical tone to the characters and story rather than
the theoretical and bookish one.
They started crowd funding for the printing of
comics. All the contributors will be rewarded. They are planning to even create
an audio visual digital copy of the comic. They try to reach maximum people through
the social media. They plan to translate the comic into various languages and
also print black and white cheaper version for the rural areas. The price of
comic will be around 500 rupees in the urban areas.
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