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June 13, 2017 | Angela Liu |
Health
How Trumpcare Will Hurt Women's Health
May was not a good month for women’s health care. On May 4, a Republican-dominated House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which proposes to tighten existing regulations o...
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April 16, 2017 | Camryn Garrett |
Health
An Interview With Sexual Health Activist Ella Dawson
Over the past two years, feminist social media manager and writer Ella Dawson has received widespread recognition for her work crushing the stigma of STDs. She has been called the “internet's foremost...
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What Trans Individuals Need To Know About Their Rights Under Obamacare
Last weekend, I felt a tiny glimmer of hope in light of the looming threat of the Trump Administration and Republican-controlled House of Representatives. Trump’s new health care bill (aka the America...
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Birth Control Is Not A Niche Issue
Imagine a girl who, of course, bears no resemblance to the author other than their shared gender identity. I use the word “girl” here very deliberately, because although she is in college, her m...
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7 Things To Rally Around To Support Feminism In 2017
2016 was a year of political turmoil, heartbreaking losses, and global discord. 2017 is poised to be another year of great change — in fact, plenty of damage has already been done: Trump ad...
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What "Sanctity of Life" Really Means
As of December 19, 2016, Texas health care facilities that perform abortions must bury fetal remains instead of putting them in a sanitary landfill, like any other type of biological medical waste. Go...
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Thankful For Planned Parenthood
100 years ago, a young woman named Margaret Sanger opened the first-ever birth control clinic in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Only ten days later, police raided the clinic and a...
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What All Young Women Should Know About The Pill
When my gynecologist said I needed to go on birth control pills at the age of 13, my mother was ecstatic. I’d been skipping multiple days of school every month since my period had started one year ear...
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How I Fought For (And Won) Comprehensive Sex Ed
I attend a small private school in Westchester, New York, which is a fairly privileged and wealthy suburb of New York City. Yet despite this privilege, our school’s health curriculum remained outdated...
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September 06, 2016 | Gabby Catalano |
Disability,
Feminism,
Health,
WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Combating Inequality In Mental Health Care
"There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.”
These words, originally written by C.S. Lewis, are painted on a wall in my apartment. My bedroom has become a sanctuary of spir...
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SHE-E-O: THINX Founder & CEO Miki Agrawal On Feminism, Entrepreneurship, & The Future
You may have seen or heard about the subway ads for the period panties THINX, featuring a super-yonic-looking grapefruit — or maybe you just followed the ridiculous controversy about those ads. Perhap...
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This Is Why We Need To Share Our Abortion Stories
"Remarkably Normal," a play by Jessi Blue Gormezano, is an artistic manifestation of the reality of abortion. The play presents a series of first-hand abortion stories which depict the incredibly comm...
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How I Learned Being Seen As "Sexy" Doesn't Equate To Happiness
I was 10 years old the first time someone commented on my appearance in public. I was walking with a boy in my class down the narrow, dark street of East 86th street in New York City. As we reac...
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Teen Girls Need Access To Their Reproductive Rights And Health, Too
The current feminist discourse surrounding women’s reproductive rights is crucial, especially considering that our access to these rights is dwindling and under constant attack. But it seems this conv...
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The Truth About Helping A Mentally Ill Friend
Depression is a living breathing monster that stalks America’s youth. It devours confidence, ruins relationships, and even ends lives. I’ve met this beast and seen the damage it inflicts firsthand. I’...
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What Young Women Especially Need To Know About Drinking
I'll admit it: I enjoy a drink or two every now and then. Wine is amazing (especially moscato) and I am old enough to legally partake in drinking it. That being said, there are some hard truths about ...
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April 03, 2016 | Rachael H |
Body image and body standards,
Disability,
Feminism,
Health,
WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Growing Pains: What Growing Up With Cerebral Palsy Taught Me About Life
Like so many others my age, at 14 I desperately wanted to be just like everyone else. But unlike most of my peers, I had spent 14 years trapped inside of a body that wouldn’t let me move. I was born w...
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What You Need To Know About the SCOTUS Abortion Case, According to Lizz Winstead of Lady Parts Justice
On March 2nd the Supreme Court will hear what is likely the most important abortion case in a generation. Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt could have huge implications for abortion in the United St...
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These Eating Disorder Activists Shared Incredible Advice About Recovery
20 million women and 10 million men in the United States will struggle with an eating disorder at some point in their life. Our culture has come a long way in terms of demanding that the public pay at...
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February 06, 2016 | Siena R |
Body image and body standards,
Disability,
Feminism,
Health,
WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
This Is What It's Really Like To Recover From An Eating Disorder
I have anorexia. My first instinct was to at least shield you, random stranger on the Internet, from that truth, to ease you in. But there's no way to put that gently. That's not my reality. My realit...
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The Facts Every Young Woman Needs To Know About Medication Abortion
On Friday, women across the country commemorated the 43rd anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States. Many noted that despite this legi...
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Why We Still Need To Talk About Periods, Period.
I recently attended a feminist art show that included an abstract painting on a stretched canvas made entirely of the artist's period blood. The show featured many works condemning body shaming and pr...
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How Rehabilitating Female Prisoners Can Help Improve the Criminal Justice System
In 1971, President Nixon infamously declared a "War on Drugs." This catalyzed an aggressive spike in incarceration rates, which increased the U.S. prison population by over 500% in just a few decades....
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What Every Young Woman Needs To Know About What It's Like To Be Roofied
It was Friday, October 9th. My best friends and I were out celebrating another friend's birthday. I knew the majority of people at the party (most were friends or at least acquaintances) and I felt sa...
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Cecile Richards Explains What Planned Parenthood Actually Does
In 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that banning abortion is unconstitutional. Yet despite being legalized, a woman's right to choose has possibly never been more threatened in t...