health
30 Years Ago, “The Golden Girls” Treated Sick Women like We Matter
Three decades later, “Sick and Tired” remains a cultural touchstone for people with chronic illnesses.
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Survival Jean: “If You Look Good, You Feel Good” Is More Than a Mantra for the Chronically Ill
When you are diagnosed with a chronic illness, everything in your life becomes incidental.
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Stop Steaming Your Vagina and Other Wisdom from Dr. Jen Gunter
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine tackles every old wives’ tale you heard as a teen.
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Deadly Dieting Tools: Who Loses When Weight Watchers Sets Its Eyes on Children?
Apps like Kurbo only make the transformation from healthy eating to disordered eating to eating disorder more efficient.
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Popaganda: Feminism beyond Burnout
Carmen Rios is challenging listeners to envision a feminism beyond burnout—and commit to making it possible.
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False Choices: What Will It Take to Ignite a Feminist Healthcare Revolution?
Capitalism often tricks us into functioning from a place of scarcity, where longing for pleasure is the most we can aspire to. But what if we could tap into our desires in small ways every day?
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Popaganda: Let’s Talk about (Talking About) Sex
In the midst of the #MeToo movement, it’s clear that we’ve all still got a lot of work left to do to change the conversations we’re having around desire and sexuality.
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Needles and Spins: Anti-Vaccine Propaganda Is Dangerously Profitable
Recasting a social contract as an individual choice is at the crux of the movement’s menace.
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Model Sawyer Devuyst Kicks Sand on Myths About Beach Season
There’s nothing wrong with my body being a trans body.
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Spasms of Truth: “Sex Education” Disrupts Pop Culture’s Silence around Painful Sex
Sex Education opens the door for women living with vaginismus and other conditions to have honest conversations about their symptoms.
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