Blood Speaks is a transmedia project that focuses on the Nepalese ritual of Chaupadi, where girls and women are exiled to rudimentary shelters while they are menstruating. Chaupadi sits within an intricate web of abuse and patriarchy, interrelated with issues of child marriage and child widows. Basu’s work in this series has played a role in putting pressure on the Nepalese government to ban the practice of Chaupadi, finally criminalised in August 2018. Photograph: Poulomi Basu.
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