FROM OBJECT FORMATION TO BIOPOLITICAL STRATEGIES: DISCOURSES ON MENSTRUAL POVERTY IN DIGITAL JOURNALISTIC MATERIALITIES

The theme of the study is related to menstrual poverty in digital journalistic materials. It consists of analyzing how menstrual poverty is constituted as an object of discourse and how it functions as biopolitical strategies in digital media materialities. As for the methodology, it is a descriptive-interpretative study with a qualitative approach. The results allow us to consider that menstrual poverty emerges as an object of discourse based on knowledge from the scientific field that seeks to deconstruct certain taboos about menstruation and denounce the economic vulnerability conditions of menstruating individuals. It can be concluded that the discourses function as biopolitical strategies of self-control and care.