Safe Cycle Week 2026: The Intersectional Flow
Artist: Portia Subran (@thelittlenameless.art)
Medium: India ink, acrylic paint, gold and copper leaf in 300gsm watercolour paper.
Description: Inspired by a woman's search for identity through her connection with agriculture in the midst of colonialism and climate change.
Artist can be contacted via thelittlenameless@gmail.com or Instagram @thelittlenameless.art to discuss purchasing the piece.
Artist: Portia Subran (@thelittlenameless.art)
Medium: Acrylic Paint on Brazilian plywood
Description: Inspired by the powerful creative energy that is stored within a woman's pelvis.
Artist can be contacted via thelittlenameless@gmail.com or Instagram @thelittlenameless.art to discuss purchasing the piece.
Artist: Jasmine Deyal (@jasminedeyaldesigns)
30” x 40”
Medium: Digital Art
Description: As a Caribbean woman, I have seen how menstruation intersects with cultural shame and financial pressure. Here lies the flowering beauty and flowing despair of the menstrual cycle. A radiant woman gazes at the towering sky caught between two emotional realities. On one eye, tears falling downwards represents blood red stains of the societal pressure and shame placed upon women to fear this natural safe cycle. Yet, on her other eye, she blossoms in the flowering state of acceptance, beauty and femininity. This blooming season is her rebirth of being a woman. Behind her, local currency bills hide in the background highlighting the monetary burden of menstrual products within the region. Our menstrual cycles can be reclaimed through the belief of our bountiful nature.
Artist can be contacted via jasminedeyal@yahoo.com or Instagram @jasminedeyaldesigns to discuss purchasing the piece.
Artist: Ali Reyes (@alireyescreates)
12" x 9"
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Description: She is menstrual flow, trapped forever in her pain, stigmas from societal oppression, labeled and placed far away from her kind. She cries tears of blood, along with her flow, that falls to The Earth, forming rivers of tears. As she tries to navigate the long and winded road. The moon cries and releases the hold as she continues to walk alone. Hoping someone will take her home.
Artist can be contacted via aliwilliamsreyes@gmail.com or Instagram @alireyescreates to discuss purchasing the piece.
Artist: Jaeda Dwarika (@jaeda_digitalart)
16” x 20”
Medium: Print on Canvas , Metallic
Description: On the theme of disability, my piece invites viewers to confront menstruation not as a quiet inconvenience but as a complex, lived reality. One that carries weight, movement and consequence across bodies and systems. This is a personal piece as I experience a level of disability through my menstruation with visible chronic pain and anxiety attacks for years. In 2021, I did a piece titled Pure Emotion which I always thought of recreating and bringing to life. This exhibition has given me the opportunity to do this as both a digital and physical piece.
Artist can be contacted via justgodigitaltt@gmail.com or Instagram @jaeda_digitalart to discuss purchasing the piece.
Artist: Jasmine Deyal (@jasminedeyaldesigns)
Description: Traveling from island to island, I have met and seen Caribbean women who endure their menstruation on cycles under social injustices such as homelessness, poverty and the byproduct of generational silence. A flowing river of red connects 4 Caribbean women within different stages of life all to the menstruation pathway of belonging.
Artist can be contacted via jasminedeyal@yahoo.com or Instagram @jasminedeyaldesigns to discuss purchasing the piece.
Artist: Ali Reyes (@alireyescreates)
12” x 9”
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Description: This is a story using the sea to bring awareness to a woman's struggle with bleeding. This is a self portrait of my journey which has ended, with it coming to an end. Which is depicted in art of this woman, standing in the red sea of her emotions and having it parted, so that she can walk out free.
Artist can be contacted via aliwilliamsreyes@gmail.com or Instagram @alireyescreates to discuss purchasing the piece.
Artist: Renaldo Matadeen
Description:Influenced by work I did with a home for Venezuelan migrants of all ages: La Casita or Little House. There, I witnessed women of all ages going without clothes and other health items we take for granted. I saw big dreams in this small charity unit, but I also felt a sense of dread and defeat for those who couldn't shake the fear of vulnerability, exploitation and predators. This ball in the visual and its handprint was snapped during a Christmas charity event where I asked what more could be done to help the migrants. Hearing they needed everything from clothes to tampons to pads, etc. opened my eyes because I could never relate to this topic the way a woman could. It reminded me how men don't endure the trouble women do, particularly families who migrate and barely have food on the table. The handprint pushed me to do more work with migrant groups and to spread the message of compassion and empathy more for a people society barely turns an eye towards. This piece touches on a gender disparity, poverty, access to healthcare and how a lack of migrant policy has failed us.
Artist: Khristiana Morris (@graphicglowtt)
Description: This piece reflects the quiet struggle of managing a period during environmental crisis, where water is everywhere, yet access to care is nowhere. My inspiration came from the inequality surrounding menstrual health. While some experience comfort and care, others are left without resources, especially during environmental disasters. I wanted to visually highlight this contrast.
Artist: Tamara Ali (@girlwiththepurplepen)
Description: Visual poem exploring the taught shame around periods, in an attempt to remove the taboo.
Artist: Natesa Mohammed (@nahnatesa)
Description: This is a mixed media collage made mostly of recycled paper was sold at our live exhibit on May 24th 2026. It depicts the experience of being female in a female bathroom the level of girlhood. However it shows even though it is a pretty and palatable bathroom its design is inherently male designed it shows that period poverty is not a concern of males and that women would rally to help each other.
Artist can be contacted via natesamohammed@gmail.com or Instagram @nahnatesa to discuss purchasing other pieces.
Artist: Nova Joseph (@novajos3319@gmail.com)
Description: This mixed media piece displays the undergarment of a woman, with stains (the hearts) from her period. The high heel shoes, made from vibrant, pink construction paper and decorated with gems, are held by a tampon and menstrual cycle cup as its heels. It represents that this is what women go through, it's part of them. Growing up in a stereotypical environment, I was taught women should always have "clean" underwear or else it's dirty. I notice that this is a common culture in the Caribbean and globally. Through social media posts of people discriminating stains to my own environment. I hope everyone knows that the menstrual cycle is natural. It is not gross or something to be disgusted by. Accidents are bound to happen. At the end of the day your uterus lining is shedding, how is it possible to prevent staining with blood and tissues gushing out your vagina? Let's all continue to educate everyone about the menstrual cycle.
Artist can be contacted via novajos3319@gmail.com to discuss purchasing the piece.
Artist: Kassie-Anne Kalloo (@fragmented_eden.art)
9” x 12”
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Description: This piece explores the layered realities of women living with physical and mental disabilities while navigating womanhood and the menstrual experience. Through symbolic imagery, I chose to portray a healthy reproductive system, replacing eggs with flowers and pomegranates, established symbols of femininity, life and renewal. The faceless figures, skeletal hand, dismembered forms and hidden tent-like structure beneath the womb reflect the silent fragmentation of identity that can occur when a woman becomes defined first by disability rather than by self. The spilling pomegranate seeds symbolize an ongoing search for healing, rejuvenation and wholeness, while the darkened tones and wilted floral elements speak to exhaustion, repression and the physical realities tied to womanhood. Together the flora and fractured figures create a contrast between life and struggle, emphasizing resilience, invisible battles and the persistence of identity beneath societal labels.
Artist can be contacted via nouveauminds@gmail.com or Instagram @fragmented_eden.art to discuss purchasing the piece.
Artist: Renaldo Matadeen (@renaldomataz)
Description: Influenced by a discussion I had with a teenager in Moruga who lamented the lack of water in the community; something she endured during COVID, too. We spoke how rural pockets are forgotten and how, in poverty-stricken families like hers, they're just "left to fend fuh weself and ketch ass." She spoke about how not being able to afford female hygiene products was one thing, but this lack of accessible water was another issue. We chatted near a standpipe she said gave water once every few weeks, but not to her on that day. Barren reflects a pipe that held one drip from a previous water release. And also, it embodies how the girl felt mentally and physically in terms of how society viewed her and the refusal to consistently grant her a basic human utility. This piece touches on geographical issues with rural communities being ignored, poverty, and access to water and healthcare.
Artist can be contacted via renaldo.matadeen@gmail.com or Instagram @renaldomataz to discuss purchasing the piece.
Artist: Chelsea Ammon (cduboiscc@gmail.com)
Description: im okay is a digital art piece that describes what it feels like to be on a period. normally, with a smile on our faces. "im okay" is a common phrase said even though we are going through alot because society deems this pain as not important and not that bad. It thrusts the agony right in everyone's faces to an undeniable degree. "im okay.....but not at all."
The RightWay Toolkit Update
Updated in December 2025, The RightWay Toolkit now incorporates new content on the intersection of climate change and sexual and reproductive health, ensuring the toolkit remains current, relevant, and responsive to evolving global challenges.
