NAIROBI, Kenya- In her candid sit-down on the Iko Nini Podcast, Senator Gloria Orwoba doesn’t just talk law—she talks about legacy.
Not the kind written in books, but the kind shaped in the glare of headlines, hashtags, and harsh judgment.
For her, the real fight has never been just in the courtroom. It’s in the court of public opinion—and that’s where she’s chosen to take her stand.
The red-stained pants protest. Whether you saw it as brave or brazen, it disrupted Kenya’s political stage in a way few protests have. For Gloria, it wasn’t about shock value—it was a deliberate act to highlight menstrual shame and the silence around period poverty.
“We’re so uncomfortable with women bleeding that we’d rather police the optics than solve the actual problem,” she says.
And just like that, a symbolic stain became a national debate. But it wasn’t kind.
The backlash was fast and vicious—online trolls, misogynistic memes, and moral policing. But Gloria didn’t fold. She fought back with a new strategy: control the narrative or be erased by it.
“If I let them tell my story, I lose. So I told it myself—and loud,” she declares.