About Diana
Remedies and repairs for our menstrual dignity 2.0

Instagram: @brujabordadoraincendiaria
Location: Villa Victoria, Estado de México, Mexico

Diana Rocío Cruz Garduño was born and lives in Palizada, Villa Victoria, Estado de México. She identifies as a Mazahua (jñatrjo) Indigenous woman and has been active for the past four years in activism and popular menstrual education.

For Diana, the land is both hope and struggle. It is a space where she witnesses the cycles of nature through rain, plants, and the harvest of the milpa, yet also the pain of exploitation through monocultures and looting. She sees this reflected in the body-land of women, yet she finds possibilities to stay alive through care, tenderness, and collective strength.

“My land would say that walking other territories and seeing other ways of life motivates me to believe that many worlds are possible… it lives in me, tied through my navel to my grandmothers, who will always protect me.”
Diana Cruz

For her, climate justice is about confronting structural inequalities while creating practices of care and preservation. It is a commitment to life, dignity, and the future — for humans and all living beings.

Diana’s project:

In Palizada, Villa Victoria, menstruation remains surrounded by silence, stigma and misinformation. Girls often reach their first period without guidance, while capitalist and patriarchal norms push disposable products and medicalised solutions, disconnecting people from ancestral practices of self-care and the use of medicinal plants. This undermines girls’ bodily autonomy and erodes knowledge of the land and its healing properties.

This project works with around 100 primary school children, caregivers, and teachers to recover and encourage sustainable and dignified menstrual practices. Through creative circles, mapping exercises, film clubs, and practical workshops, participants explore the menstrual cycle as part of the body-land and its deep connection to the environment. They will learn to make and care for reusable pads, recognise the role of medicinal plants, and reflect on the ecological impact of disposable products.

Together, the community will co-create educational materials, a menstrual first-aid kit, and a small “menstrual library,” while opening dialogue across genders and generations. By weaving ancestral wisdom with sustainable practices, the project strengthens dignity, collective care, and ecological awareness — ensuring that women’s menstrual health is understood as inseparable from the health of the land.

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