health
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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Abby Norman on Endometriosis, Healthcare, and the Legacy of Female “Hysteria”
We want there to be these tidy endings, but that isn’t the reality of living with a chronic illness.
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The Endo Look: Body Positivity Needs to Tackle Chronic Illness
Like relationships we have with other people, the relationship we have with our bodies is not as polarized as all love or all hate.
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Our Bodies, Our Hells: Why Isn’t Pain a Feminist Issue?
Just about everyone has a Tired Girl in their family, even if they don’t yet know it.
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