Menstruation Without Taboo is an initiative by Professor Dr. Janaina Morais, in collaboration with the Vertente Solidária NGO, with support from individual collaborators, NetRosas, CESE (Ecumenical Service Coordination), Libbs Farmacêutica, and Cimec.

Janaina Morais is a visual artist, anthropologist, educator, and menstrual therapist, with a PhD in Social Sciences from the Graduate Program in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil (PPGCSO-UFJF, 2021), with a focus on the Anthropology of Menstruation.

For 15 years, she has researched topics such as gender, body, sexuality, art, feminisms, politics, health, autonomous gynecology, emotions, healing, experience, education, blood, and menstruation, sharing her knowledge through publications, experiences, courses, workshops, classes, and discussion circles.

Since 2016, she has worked with Menstrual Education, offering courses, consulting, and creating content and educational materials on the subject, either independently or at the invitation of institutions. She currently develops the “Menstruation Without Taboo” project in partnership with the Vertente Solidária NGO, and is also a postdoctoral researcher at Labjor/Unicamp, developing the research project “Menstrual Education in schools: impacts and challenges in promoting menstrual dignity,” funded by Brazil’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, with a research stage in Mexico, linked to Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

Vertente Solidária NGO is a non-profit civil society organization, a private legal entity, focused on socioeconomic, educational, cultural, technological, environmental, and human development, operating throughout Brazil, with headquarters in Barbacena, Minas Gerais. Founded in 2001, it provided important services to the environmental sector in Barbacena for several years and worked with Brazil’s Federal Food Acquisition Program (PAA), through agreements for implementation in Barbacena and the region. Currently, it runs two projects: “Esperançar,” now in its fourth year, providing educational support to children in situations of social vulnerability; and “Menstruation Without Taboo,” which offers menstrual education workshops in schools and other institutions.