To begin this new season of 100 Sisters on Security, Karen Farley, an entrepreneur and sustainability researcher who has studied sustainable menstruation, joins us in a discussion on menstruation and period poverty, topics often treated as taboo despite affecting a quarter of the global population. This conversation delves into how menstruation intersects with security and defense when viewed through a human‑security lens and explores why menstruation remains taboo.

A system built on fear is killing people. From Minnesota to Canada, immigration enforcement is crossing moral lines by detaining children, ending lives, and eroding human rights. As an immigrant, I refuse to accept a world where violence becomes policy.

As the newly appointed Canada Country Chair for G100 Security & Defence, I am proud to share my most recent work that brought me here. Weaving Green Justice is my autoethnographic vlog from COP30, documenting the power, exclusions, and possibilities inside global climate defence through a justice lens. Through personal reflection and grassroots analysis, the series makes climate governance accessible while centering gender and human security.