Tag Archives: Health
Quick Hit: On teets, tots and spats
Our own Jessica Valenti has a must-read about how shaming women who can’t or don’t want to breastfeed — and choose to use formula — is really fucking problematic (something she’s experienced recently): I support breastfeeding women – long before I had my daughter I was blogging about the heinous lack of resources for breastfeeding [...]
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Crisis Propaganda Centers in the NY Times
Today in the New York Times, Katie Stack writes about her first hand experience with Crisis Pregnancy Centers during her junior year of college. We’ve talked before about how CPCs pretend to be centers where women who are pregnant can come to consider all of their options, but are actually anti-choice fronts. What Katie found [...]
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I Had HPV and Lived to Tell the Tale
As a follow-up from Maya’s post yesterday and for #HPVDay today, this is a guest post by Bryce Covert, a writer and editor who works on feminism, economic equality, and progressive politics. You can find her work here. I was 24 when I found out that my health insurance would cover the full cost of [...]
Review of Brown Boi Project’s new health guide: Freeing Ourselves
Vanessa mentioned this new guide a few weeks ago, and I had the honor of receiving a review copy. For folks who aren’t familiar with the Brown Boi Project: Is a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and our allies committed to transforming our privilege of masculinity, gender, and race into [...]
Gynecologists told to prepare to treat transgender patients