The Uterus Touring Exhibition, which travels to several cities in China, is free to enter, and all the proceeds from the sale of goods and artworks will be used to donate sanitary napkins to women in poor areas.
Q: Can you tell us a little bit about what you’re currently doing?
My current main job is to work in Qingdao, and then use my spare time to do the project of uterine tour, at the beginning I made a public account, talking about feminist, and after being noticed by many people, I slowly made the uterine tour, the theme of the uterus tour is to introduce women to the other side of the uterus, because it involves childbirth, it may be endowed with a lot of sacred values, but in fact, women are more likely to face menstruation and gynecological diseases, and the exhibits on display are female artists on joint social platforms, They provide exhibits, and we will use all the proceeds to buy sanitary napkins from our partners for each exhibition, and donate them to girls in poor areas through public welfare foundations, my first donation was during the earthquake in Gansu, and I learned about the lack of feminine hygiene products on social platforms, so I donated 900 packs of sanitary napkins.
Q: What kind of concept does it seem like feminism or feminism to you?
Maybe I don’t know how to say what kind of concept feminism is, but I can say why I started doing it, because I lived in a small county town in the mountains when I was a child, not a very developed place, and there was no sex education curriculum in the school. At first, it was because my mother took the IUD(intrauterine device), she got endometrial displacement, endometritis, and went to the hospital, and when I was hospitalized, my mother gave me a mobile phone, then my teacher found out I brought a mobile phone to class when I was in elementary school, and then our teacher called me to the office, I said that it was because my mother was hospitalized with gynecological disease, she was afraid that I would not be able to contact her, other classmates heard it, then they said that my mother had a gynecological disease, and they began to laugh at me, which made me very impressed. Until I went to university and started reading a lot of books on women’s themes that I slowly realized that their ideas were wrong. After making a public account, I found that many times I could be seen by everyone, but I couldn’t really help those women, so I had the idea of donating. We hope that everyone can get rid of menstrual stigma and continue to develop into a menstruation-friendly society, so that everyone can get rid of menstrual poverty.
Q: Do you have any memorable experiences in the process of holding exhibitions or donating?
I was impressed by the first exhibition, because I am not an art student, and I don’t have any experience in holding exhibitions, but in the first exhibition, I really met a lot of women who helped me, including one sister from a publishing house, who would give us a book sharing session, sponsor a lot of our sex education books, and people from other cities who helped me set up the exhibition.
But after I did this exhibition, when I promoted it on social media, I would meet people who were not very polite, for example, some college classmates came to me and asked me, because I mentioned a lot of uterus, gynecological diseases and so on, they would come and joke with me, I think we were talking about sex education, but it was not that I could accept men coming and joking with me for no reason, this is particularly impolite, I was just popularizing sex education, I was just learning some normal knowledge that we should know.