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The Feministing Five: Karuna Jaggar
Karuna Jaggar I don’t know about you, but I can’t stop shaking my head at all of the poor taste, misinformed, and flat out irresponsible pink-ribbon “breast cancer awareness” campaigns that crawl out...
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Relevant yesterday relevant today
Cross-posted from UN Women Mtisunge Kachingwe is a 23-year-old young woman from Malawi working as a doctor at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital. I work for the YWCA of Malawi and in one of our...
View ArticleThe Summer I Didn’t Shave My Legs
I have tweezed, plucked, trimmed, and stroked myself with a razor. I have fought an unwinnable war, again and again, with the hair on my body. But for the first time this summer I asked myself the big...
View ArticleOwning your pleasure
‘So I think one of the most radical things a girl can do is to own her body.’ Staceyann Chin One could think nowadays it’s so common to talk about equality between sexes, every woman has heard the...
View ArticleMPTs: Contraception Plus HIV & Other STI Prevention
Because approximately half of all pregnancies in the world are unintended and because Friday September 26th is World Contraception Day , an international collaboration of researchers, funders and...
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Abortion: Not Just A Statistic, But a Story.
At the Palais Des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, 2009, Photo By Alabera An Ran Zhao It seems almost logical that I should write about abortion. This is a personal feminist blog and I have had two...
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Physical abuse cannot be viewed as ‘harder’ than verbal abuse
There is something about morning coffee after a good night’s sleep that tends to bring all the thoughts. This morning, I read an US Weekly article about Sarah Hyland that emphasized how her former...
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The Feministing Five: “Saying Abortion Aloud”
Last week, the organization Sea Change released “Saying Abortion Aloud,” an extensive report examining how we can better support those who speak out for reproductive justice. We spoke with its...
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New study shows 76% of women have never been asked about domestic violence in...
A new national study done by the Verizon Foundation and More Magazine reveals that 76 percent of women say they have never been asked about domestic violence in a medical exam. And while 44 percent of...
View ArticleWeekly Feminist Reader
What the tech industry has to do with the future of health. We still don’t have a good way of talking about pursuing friendship. The dangerous transphobia of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. “When I fully burned...
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Support this environmental and reproductive justice conference!
A month later, I’m still seeing quotes from Laverne Cox’s keynote address at Creating Change 2014 (which I’m not at all bitter about missing out on. Really…I’m fine). She was a big name at a bigger...
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The Feministing Five: Emily Letts
As we covered earlier last week, Emily Letts and her three minutes and 18 second video are empowering women by providing truthful and direct information about her abortion. Her video shares her story...
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How I’m learning to appreciate different bodies
Image via Diversexity.tumblr.com Last weekend my dad and I got into a conversation about bodies. While cleaning up the kitchen, we started talking about weight and body image, and for the first time...
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The Feministing Five: Louise Melling
I don’t know about you, but I can easily say that I have had better Mondays than I did last week. After the Supreme Court struck down buffer zones around abortion clinics,the Hobby Lobby decision only...
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Feministing Reads: Eula Biss’s On Immunity
Last week I went to my pharmacy with the intention of getting my first flu shot. While waiting, I had the bad idea to search “flu shot conspiracy theories” on my phone, and I read them until I was...
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The Feministing Five: Christopher Purdy
For this week’s Feministing Five we spoke with Christopher Purdy, president of carafem, an abortion clinic that recently opened in the Washington DC area. With his team, he’s envisioning a new way to...
View ArticleThe Feministing Five: California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative
As The New York Times covered in a two-piece series last week, the current state of nail salons in the United States is full of labor abuse, reproductive injustices, and toxic work environments. The...
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How too many sex education programs harm LGBTQ youth
Ed. note: This post was originally published on the Community site. In March, North Carolina’s House of Representatives passed HB 29, an education bill that includes a litany of requirements for how...
View ArticleWhy I don’t encourage my patients to report sexual assault
Ed. note: This post was originally published on the Community site. It is by Lily Divino. Campus sexual assault rightly gets a lot of press. It’s an important topic: a horrific amount of women are...
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Self-Care is my Political Tool
On Wednesday, November 9th, 2016, I woke up refusing to let the election impact me. In a matter of hours, I had completed chores, ran some errands, and had been looped into a conversation planning an...
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