“Smile, even though it hurts”: A photovoice study exploring the practices, experiences and spaces for menstrual care in Spain

Abstract

• Menstrual experiences include distress but also care, connection, and compassion. • Critically analysing care reveals social structures that shape menstrual distress. • Intersecting axes of inequity produce and intensify barriers to menstrual care. • White, cis-heteropatriarchal social structures aggravate menstrual distress. • Photovoice facilitated visual narratives of menstrual distress and menstrual care.