User:Homedpo

Introduction
Hello, my name is Divya Popat and I am a student in PJHC371 in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022. I am a senior studying Biosciences with a PJHC minor, and am particularly interested in the ways that systemic oppression manifest in health disparities.

Proposed Topic Updates Spring 2022
After discussing with Dr. Ward the harms of using food apartheid as a term, I am most likely going to do my project on the Food Justice Movement article. Currently in the Wikipedia article on food deserts and the Food Justice Movement, race is only mentioned in a small paragraph of the article. Scholars have recently expounded upon the inherently racialized nature of food deserts, even going to the extent of labeling certain neighborhoods as experiencing a more extreme food desert called “food apartheid” or food segregation. For that reason, I would like to restructure and edit the Food Justice Movement article to adequately illustrate the systemic and racialized food segregation experience.

Topic Summary
Nowhere on Wikipedia is there any allusion to menstrual inequities, or even terms like “period poverty”. While stigma is covered, menstruation is not an equitable biological process, and brings to light countless intersectionality issues as we strive for a world in which everyone has access to period products. While there is an article on the tampon tax, nowhere on Wikipedia is there a mention of: 1) period poverty and how it unfairly impacts poor communities 2) the inherently racialized experience of menstruation, particularly for Black menstruators 3) the harmful impacts and struggles uniquely faced by transgender menstruators. For this reason, I hope to create a subsection on the Menstruation page, with hyperlinked sections to current, existing article like “Incarceration of Women in the US”, “Tampon tax”, and “Women’s Health”.

For my Wikipedia article, I have made revisions to the “Menstruation” article. I added two primary chunks of information: a section about Activism and a section about Menstrual Inequity. Previously, the section on Activism was two sentences and solely discussed Nadya Okamoto’s accomplishments. I split the section into two components, one that highlighted the rise of menstrual activism and another that discusses more modern implications. For the Menstrual Inequity section, there are three main injustices I wanted to address: socioeconomic, gender, and racial.

Sandbox Link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Homedpo/Menstruation?preload=Template%3ADashboard.wikiedu.org_draft_template