health
Popaganda: Watching What You Eat
What does it take to get “well”? When we think about wellness, especially right now, we tend to think of it as everything we do to make our lives and bodies healthy. Rather than defining health through the negation of sickness, wellness advocates press that being “well” is an ongoing process of... Read more »
Grief Police: The Men Who Want Ariana Grande to Break Down
Grieving is messy and difficult and unpredictable, but being poked and prodded by paparazzi, reporters, and social-media users adds an unnecessary pressure that can send anyone into a tailspin.
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BitchTapes: World AIDS Day
Every December 1, the world commemorates the lives lost and the progress we’ve made
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Shining Light: Sini Anderson is Fighting for Late-Stage Lyme Patients
We’re too young to be this ill, and there are too many unanswered questions.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Queer Love on “The Bachelor”
Finally, the queer love story we all deserve.
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Words to Live By: Why is it so Uncomfortable When Women Challenge Traditional Cancer Narratives?
There are two prevailing cancer stories we hear about: the one where someone lives and the one where someone dies. There is, in the cultural narrative of the disease, little room for anything else.
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How To Survive the Traumatic 24-hour News Cycle If You Have PTSD
For sexual assault or harassment survivors, especially those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the last two weeks have been full of triggers.
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Dying Indifference: Confronting the Shame of Alzheimer’s in Black Communities
Until a cure is found for Alzheimer’s, African Americans must break the silence in our communities.
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Of Mice and Men: When Research Excludes Female Rodents, Human Women Lose
The scientific implications of excluding female animals from scientific and biomedical research are astounding.
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Checkbox Colonization: The Erasure of Indigenous People In Chronic Illness
I am choosing to fight.
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