Celebration and Suffering: Black Breastfeeding Week Has Room for Complexity
We need conversations about breastfeeding that are as nuanced and complex as is breastfeeding while Black.
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#TeamLegal
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Sexual Health
How to Normalize Talking to Your Kids About Pleasure
"Pleasure gets really simplified. People think we're teaching students how to have an orgasm, but they're missing all the other pieces."
The Lack of Culturally Competent Health-Care Providers Hurts LGBTQ Folks
Making trauma support affirming means recognizing historical trauma that stems from generations of anti-LGBTQIA+ violence and discrimination.
How Sex Ed Has the Power to Make Social Change
Arming students with inclusive sex education would lead to a community of individuals empowered to change social systems.
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What If Colleges Made Menstrual Products Free?
One in 10 U.S. college students who menstruate face period poverty, which means they’re unable to afford menstrual products.
Culture & Conversation
We Need to Radically Change the Way We Think About Sexual Violence
Even if the criminal legal system was "working," the needs of sexual violence survivors would still go unmet, civil rights attorney Alexandra Brodsky said.
What It’s Like to Be a Pregnant Abortion Provider
Being pregnant and providing my patients with abortion care does not change my ethical understanding of abortion, but it does give me a new perspective.
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Our Plan to Address This Critical Moment for Reproductive Freedom
We call on our colleagues in Congress to act quickly to vote for appropriations bills free of harmful, discriminatory abortion bans.
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