Impact of menstrual health and hygiene on girls’ education in Kenya(Photo: iStock) It began, as many modern movements do, with a hashtag. Around 2015, women running the London Marathon bled openly through their athletic shorts, refusing to apologise for a biological reality society has long insisted be hidden. The phrase ‘free bleeding’ soon entered public discourse, igniting fierce debate in Europe and North America. For some, it was a radical protest; for others, provocation. Either way, it forced the world to talk about menstruation. Nearly a decade later, free bleeding has resurfaced in global media, framed as activism and bodily autonomy. Closer to home in Turkana County,…