Tabitha Yamaguchi was born and raised in the United States, but her family moved a lot because of her father’s military career. In her childhood, she discovered anime (specifically Sailor Moon), which caught her fascination. Tabitha became inquisitive and researched to draw these characters. She nudged her creative talent, and it ignited a passion within her. With an unstoppable desire to build beautiful characters, she vowed to practice drawing after that. That is how the journey of creating art started for Tabitha.
It went on for a long time until a turn of events happened last year. In May 2020, Tabitha quit her job and moved states with her spouse for his next duty station. Being unemployed, she wanted a way to keep herself busy while satiating her creative appetite. So, Tabitha decided to switch from using pencil and paper to using digital devices and drawing programs. To keep herself, she created an Instagram account to post her work and developed a posting schedule. With this idea in mind, Tabitha created an Instagram account with the handle @period_prophetess in February 2020. Through this account, she started sharing her period-themed illustrations with the world.
Tabitha Yamaguchi – Period Prophetess
Once Tabitha decided to create digital art and share it online, she faced a big hurdle: how to illustrate effectively with digital tools. It was a difficult learning curve, and it took her some time to adapt to it. Tabitha worked consistently. After a while, she gained confidence in creating pieces digitally. The next question she had to answer was what topic to discuss and put in front of society.
Soon, Tabitha discovered how menstruation is a topic that many people avoid talking about. In turn, the lack of communication and understanding helped lead to a stigma being attached to periods. It is partially why Tabitha chose period issues and topics to discuss and illustrate. However, these subjects are incredibly vast, and sometimes she gets overwhelmed with selecting one topic at a time to convey.
Tabitha Yamaguchi purposely keeps her account semi-anonymous so that she can spread awareness without any inhibitions or limitations. Although her family and close friends do not know about her initiative, she believes even her extended family and friends would not mind spreading awareness about menstruation.
She also has a deep interest in occult objects and divinity studies (like tarot cards and astrology). It gave her the idea to combine periods with these themes to make it more interesting. Therefore, her art consists of mystical imagery and periods. It is not only attractive, but it is also a unique idea.
One of Tabitha’s long-term goals is to build a large community, so she can efficiently empower all menstruators and inform everyone. Tabitha Yamaguchi continually strives to combine valuable menstrual information with her art. She wishes to erase unawareness surrounding menstruation and the stigma attached to it artistically. The possibility of someone learning from her content keeps her motivated. She has received a lot of love and support on her Instagram, encouraging her to do more for society.
More than 100 million Americans are still living in poverty – a large percentage of whom are people who have periods. It makes it apparent that not all menstruators can afford period-related products. It is also safe to assume that purchasing period products like pads or tampons can be challenging to do continuously if you live in poverty. With this fact in mind, she urges each person reading this post to donate to organizations that supply period products to those in need.
As consumers, we can make informed decisions by only buying products from a company that gives back to society. These are straightforward ways people like you and me can help combat poverty and its stigma.
Tabitha hopes everyone can understand that periods are regular and must be treated as a parting thought. If you want to explore the topic of menstruation, please consider following Tabitha, who goes by the Instagram handle @period_prophetess. She empowers more and more menstruators to come forward and talk about menstruation by having a welcoming social media environment. Tabitha Yamaguchi wishes for people to be more open and talk about a normal thing that half of the population goes through each month: periods.
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