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[Photo: A digital collage of 7 APA activists of different genders, bodies and ages.]

7 Gender Justice Activists to Know This Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

APA women and trans and nonbinary people have been at the forefront of movements for survivors, LGBTQ liberation, bodily autonomy, and sex positivity.

[Photo: An older transwoman smiles as she is escorted out of the Supreme Court by her legal team.]

Aimee Stephens, Transgender Woman at Heart of Supreme Court Battle, Dies

Jessica Mason Pieklo

Aimee Stephens was a trailblazer for transgender rights. But her legacy could reach even further.

[Photo: A woman holds a clipboard as she shows a breast model to another woman.]

For People Living on the Texas Border, COVID-19 Brings Unique Challenges to Reproductive Health Care

Maya Eashwaran

Promotoras are community health workers who usually go door to door and provide essential reproductive health information and access to residents of colonias. But what happens during a pandemic?

[Photo: A gender nonconforming person sits in bed and looks at the camera.]

Is It Normal to Not Want to Masturbate Ever?

Cassandra Corrado

Every sex act, including masturbation, is just an option on a vast and varied sexual menu, and it’s OK to pass on any of them.

[Photo: An illustration of two women smiling on two separate video conferencing windows.]

Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill Johnson on Why the Fight to #FreeThePill ‘Feels So Retro’

Galina Espinoza

The acting president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America spoke with Rewire News Group about the past, present, and future of birth control.

[Photo: U.S. Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sit during an event.]

The Women of the Supreme Court Are Sick of These Nonsense Objections to Birth Control

Jessica Mason Pieklo

After nearly a decade fighting over the birth control benefit, the women justices of the Supreme Court have had enough.

[Photo: A photo collage of President Donald Trump, the Little Sisters of the Poor and birth control.]

Trump and the Nuns Are Coming for Your Birth Control: A GIFsplanation

Imani Gandy

The religious right continues to wield religion as a weapon against your rights guaranteed under the ACA to preventive health care without a co-pay, including birth control.

[Photo: An illustration of three people who are within proximity of each other and are sitting inside their own protective bubbles.]

How to Fulfill Your Need for Sex, Touch, and Intimacy When You’re Self-Isolating

Cassandra Corrado

Positive human connection has a big influence on our mental health, but what does that look like when we can’t get together with the people we care about?

[Photo: A person holds up a sign amidst a crowd in support of trans athletes participating in sports during National Trans Visibility Day.]

Idaho’s New Anti-Trans Athlete Law: ‘It’s Hard to Imagine a More Invasive Thing’

Ray Levy-Uyeda

The goal of anti-trans legislation, experts say, is not equity but rather to codify discriminatory and invasive practices founded on nonscientific reasoning and personal prejudice.

[Photo: A woman wears a mask as she sits in a clinic's waiting room.]

For Reproductive Freedom, Going Back to ‘Normal’ Is Not an Option

Jill E. Adams

Now is the time to take responsibility for both the past and the present, and to demand change.

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