By Taq Kaur Bhandal @imwithperiods. The first Gurus (leaders in the Sikh faith) really emphasized the power and beauty of menstruation, childbirth, and more processes of the female-assigned pelvis. Much of my learning about this comes from Guninder Kaur who writes, “the Khalsa is not created from individual parts of the body…but through the natural, [metaphorically] maternal process, with all its emotions, complexities, and hormonal effects,”