http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11503621/Instagram-deletes-womans-period-photos-her-reply-is-great.html
Photographer Rupi Kaur has effectively made Instagram, one of the most popular photo-sharing websites in the world, accept that periods are not inappropriate. Last week she posted a photograph of a fully clothed woman lying in bed with a period stain on Instagram. It was deleted twice by the social media site because it didn’t “follow [their] Community Guidelines.” The guidelines prohibit sexual acts, violence and nudity, they do not mention anything about periods. Kaur took to Facebook to write: “Thank you Instagram for providing me with the exact response my work was created to critique. You deleted my photo twice stating that it goes against community guidelines.“I will not apologise for not feeding the ego and pride of misogynist society that will have my body in an underwear but not be ok with a small leak when your pages are filled with countless photos/accounts where women (so many who are underage) are objectified, pornified, and treated less than human.”
She explained that she created a series around menstruation to “demystify the period and make something that is innate ‘normal’ again.”
It is obvious that this image does not go against Instagram's guidelines as they quite clearly do not state anything about periods. Moreover, the woman in the image is fully dressed therefore there is no 'nudity' involved. I believe it was wrong of Instagram to take down this image twice as it shows something perfectly normal.
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