Red Tara Tree

04/06/2026

Reflection of an Embroidery
Today I return to my grandmother’s house.
I return to the girl who skated clumsily, who fell more than she moved forward.
And I also return to the blood that arrived for the first time.
To the bathroom. To the wet underwear. To the fear.
I remember her anger.
I remember how she told everyone as if I had done something wrong.
And I remember how I believed it.
Today I unpick that memory.
I heal the shame that was stored in my heart.
Skating did not make me menstruate.
Menstruation is not a mistake.
It is cycle, it is life, it is body.
Today I name myself a menstrual educator.
I love myself for running, jumping, skating, and sleeping without fear.
I love myself for saying out loud: I menstruate.
Without guilt.
Without silence.
Without shame.
My cycle is mine.
And I honor it.

By: Paola Chavez

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29/05/2026

Dear sisters, thank you thank you thank you for your most precious weaving yesterday for Menstrual Hope Day. In the meantime in Chile, 7 hours behind most of you, I am weaving the red thread in Chile. Right now, there is a panel with indigenas. Allow me to post some pictures of the event till now.

28/05/2026

Will you weave with us today?

28/05/2026

I am so excited to wish you a merry weaving today sisters. Happy Menstrual Hope Day

27/05/2026

Tomorrow is Menstrual Hope Day.
You’re still on time to join us 🌹

Join us in weaving a collective gesture of connection, hope and remembrance with a simple red thread.
Tie it around your wrist, a tree, your altar, your garden or your home.

Share it with friends, sisters or family.
Post your red thread and add your intention to the collective field.
And use the hashtags:


One small gesture already matters.

🌹 Join the Movement: https://www.facebook.com/groups/menstrualhopehub
🌹 Download the Ritual Guide:
https://redtaratree.org/9223-2/

26/05/2026

🌹 Subscribe to the Memory in Stitches Event: https://redtaratree.org/9218-2/
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Embroidery carries an ancient feminine memory.
Long before women could freely write their stories, many stitched them into fabric. Into clothing. Into ceremonial cloths. Into the hidden language of thread, symbols and hands moving rhythmically together.

To weave, stitch and embroider is more than decoration.

It is slowness.
It is presence.
It is prayer moving through the body.

Each stitch becomes a moment of listening.
A moment where memory, emotion and meaning can gently surface.

In Memory in Stitches, we weave our menstrual story because the body remembers.
The womb remembers.
The nervous system remembers.

And thread has a mysterious way of helping us touch memories that words alone sometimes cannot reach.

The fabric becomes a symbolic skin.
The needle becomes a bridge between pain and wisdom.
The thread becomes connection: between past and present, between the menstrual girl we once were and the woman we are becoming, between body, Earth and soul.

Across cultures, women have gathered around textile arts for centuries: weaving together, mending together, singing together, healing together.

There is something profoundly restorative in creating with our hands while sitting in circle.

Sometimes healing arrives one stitch at a time. 🌹

26/05/2026

A simple invitation for Menstrual Hope Day… 🌹

On May 28, we invite women, womb-keepers and allies across the world to weave a Red Thread of Hope.

A thread for the sacredness of our cycles.
A thread for future generations.
A thread for the Earth, for connection and for peace.

A thread that helps break the taboo around menstruation and remembers moontime as something deeply human, powerful and life-giving.

Because menstruation and birth are two sides of the same coin. Together, they form the foundation of humanity.

Because menstrual blood is the only blood shed without violence.

BECAUSE WE ARE TIRED OF WAR.

Menstrual Hope Day is inspired by two prophecies of peace:

“When 1000 Tara’s unite, the world will shift from fear to compassion.”
— Tibetan prophecy

“When women start again to give their moon blood back to the Earth, men will come home from war and there will be peace.”
— Hopi prophecy

On May 28, we invite you to help anchor those prophecies through one simple collective gesture.

Tie a red thread around your wrist, a tree, your altar, your garden or your home.
Create a small ritual.
Post your red thread.
Add your intention to the collective field.
Use the hashtags below.

One small gesture already matters.

May the red thread travel across countries, cultures and generations.
May it become a living prayer woven through the world. ❤️

For more info:
Join the MENSTRUAL HOPE MOVEMENT
or visit https://redtaratree.org/menstrual-hope-month-2026/

25/05/2026

24/05/2026

🌹 Join the group:
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/189twUeWUb/?mibextid=wwXIfr

23/05/2026

One thread. One gesture. One collective weaving.

On May 28, people across the world are invited to weave the red thread for hope, cycles, Earth, and future generations.