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Instagram deletes user photo twice for featuring menstrual blood, subsequently apologizes

on Mar 27, 2015 | 0 comments

By Nesh Pillay

Instagram has twice deleted, and the reposted a user’s photo that featured period blood.

The user, Rupi Kaur, a Toronto-based college student, posted the pictures to highlight what she calls a misogynistic society.

After the photo of a fully-clad female lying in bed with a spot of blood on her pants was first deleted, Kaur reposted it, challenging Instagram because technically, it adhered to the platform’s community guidelines.

“Thank you @instagram for providing me with the exact response my work was created to critique,” she wrote. “You deleted a photo of a woman who is fully covered and menstruating stating that it goes Read full story ›

Source: The Drum