What is
Intimate
Justice?
It is the ground on which women's health, dignity, and autonomy stand.
What is
Intimate
Justice?
It is the enabling of women to meet their everyday bodily needs without shame, deprivation or exclusion
It is the ground on which
women's health, dignity,
and autonomy stand.
Why underwear is a
rights issue.
Intimate Justice spans three interconnected dimensions — each essential to understanding why a garment is also a gateway.
Health & Hygiene
Without underwear, there is no functional ground for menstrual hygiene products to work. Without the ability to manage menstruation safely and comfortably, women's participation in daily life is often restricted to non-menstruating days, limiting mobility, education, and work.
Mobility & Participation
Women who cannot manage menstruation safely often restrict daily participation to non-menstruating days. The result is reduced mobility, school absenteeism, missed work, and limited social engagement.
Autonomy & Dignity
When washing underwear is considered shameful, or when a woman cannot independently purchase it, this reflects and reinforces systemic inequalities that position women's intimate needs as indulgence, not necessity.
Grounded in
lived reality
Our work includes continuous engagements with women to listen, observe and learn from their everyday experiences & bodily needs.
"Through these channels, we foreground the importance of social, economic, and physical access to underwear as a fundamental yet overlooked dimension of gender equity."
Without addressing this
neglected foundation,
broader rights cannot
fully be realised.
Intimate justice is not a niche concern — it is the foundation of every other right.
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