![]() ![]() Anna did, on one of our forays into a bookstore in KL. I didn’t discover Go With The Flow, a upper-middle grade graphic novel about menstruation. For many years afterwards, her words echoed in my ears every time I went to buy pads, by then for my own use, and my cheeks would burn. “Shameful mah!” she whispered, pushing the parcel into my hands as if it were contraband. I didn’t want to miss the start of Gilligan’s Island so I said I didn’t care if it was wrapped or not. The Ah Soh at the store handed me the items, but insisted on wrapping up the box of pads with newspaper before I could leave. ![]() I had to pick up some freshly squeezed coconut milk, a loaf of Sunshine bread and a box of Kotex sanitary pads. I remember cycling to our neighbourhood kedai runcit (convenience store) in Ipoh, the sleepy town in Malaysia where I grew up. ![]() “Talking about periods is the first step to taking that period power back.” – Abby ![]()
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