Menstruation
Everything I need to know, I learned from my period
I got my first period when I was 14. I remember it being a pretty uneventful experience, one I felt mildly prepared for after the 4th grade videos the girls…
Sex + Intimacy
Meet Dipsea: An Audio Stories App Designed to Turn Women On
We meet early on a Friday morning at a coffee shop in the center of San Francisco. The line is out the door when I arrive, and Gina is already…
Body + Body Image
Breast Cancer + Blackness: Education as Armor and Advocacy
Awareness is everything. I also believe that awareness is a relative of love. LUMPS + BUMPS When I was about 13 years old, around the time I was developing breasts,…
Birth Control + Abortion
Why Crisis Pregnancy Centers Are Not Safe Alternatives to Planned Parenthood
Six years ago, I sat in a grocery store bathroom watching the double lines appear on a pregnancy test. In a matter of seconds, I went from being a single…
Fertility
3 Surprising Ways to Improve Your Fertility
If trying to conceive is taking longer than you expected, you probably feel like you’ve read everything there is to know about improving your chances of getting pregnant. However, there…
Pregnancy + Birth
Meet Maggie Doyne, Legal Guardian to 50 Children & Founder of BlinkNow
Maggie Doyne lives and works in Nepal, where she runs BlinkNow, a nonprofit organization which includes a children’s home, school, and women’s health center. In addition to leading the organization,…
Pregnancy Loss
Unwanted: A Story of a Missed Abortion
My husband and I had an unspoken agreement—if we became pregnant again, we would have an abortion. It’s not that we didn’t want to give my son a younger sibling…
Menopause
Does Menopause Mark the End of Your Sex Life?
Menopause can be a transformative time in a woman’s life that need not be colored with negative bias before it even begins. In particular, if we change the narrative around…
