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Uppity Witches collect pads to break menstrual taboos in Cameroon
This year students in Advice Project Media's Uppity Witches class studied witch hunts in Papua New Guinea, Europe, Tanzania, Cameroon, India, Haiti, and the USA. They learned about the third degree, a popular method of harsh questioning to obtain confessions from accused witches. These "witches" have traditionally been deemed of no societal use because they don't subscribe to patriarchal norms - many of them, for example, are unmarried or widowed. Students were horrified to l