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Typically: animated short challenges menstrual taboos

digital · 2026-04-27

British directors Anna Ginsburg and Caitlin McCarthy have created "Typically," a colorful animated short film about menstruation, produced for the #NoShameHere campaign by London-based association Bloody Good Period. The film features bright characters dealing with their "biological clocks," armed with sanitary pads and hot water bottles, reclaiming their nature against rhetoric. Accompanied by a pop soundtrack, the video is produced by Zoe Elizabeth Muslim and includes a fundraiser urging the UK government to make menstrual hygiene products free. The campaign aims to break the silence around menstruation, a topic still taboo in political, cultural, and economic discourse despite affecting half the world's population.

Key facts

  • Anna Ginsburg and Caitlin McCarthy directed the animated short 'Typically'
  • The film is part of the #NoShameHere campaign by Bloody Good Period
  • Bloody Good Period is a London-based association providing educational projects and free feminine hygiene products
  • The video features bright characters dealing with menstruation
  • It includes a fundraiser to ask the UK government to make menstrual hygiene products free
  • The film was produced by Zoe Elizabeth Muslim
  • The short aims to challenge taboos around menstruation
  • The topic remains largely banned from political, cultural, and economic discussion

Entities

Artists

  • Anna Ginsburg
  • Caitlin McCarthy
  • Zoe Elizabeth Muslim

Institutions

  • Bloody Good Period

Locations

  • London
  • United Kingdom

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