This talk will analyze chhaupadi, a practice in which women live separately from their families during menstruation. Drawing on interviews with rural women in Far West Nepal who practice chhaupadi, Joshi challenges depictions of chhaupadi and demonstrates the practice's striking diversity in terms of where women live during menstruation. This diversity results from the interactions between menstruators’ local conditions and external forces such as the criminalization of the practice (which was banned in 2017), hut demolition campaigns, and NGO interventions. Chhaupadi emerges as a dynamic practice sustained by constellations of relations and interactions among women, their families, and the community. Joshi shows that women play a central role in making and remaking this practice and examines women’s own explanations as to why.