I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I would marry HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) if I could.   I was in my late 40s and experiencing hot flashes – nay – nuclear flashes, several times an hour, round the clock. As a result, I was absolutely miserable and irritable and I was losing hope […]

This week, Jess and Imani get into all clownery and corruption at the Supreme Court and what they learned from last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings over SCOTUS ethics (like Chief Justice John Roberts refusing to show up and testify). Mentioned in this episode: Rewire News Group is a nonprofit media organization, which means that […]

Ever since I got my period at age 12, my pre-menstrual symptoms have been intense. It was like clockwork: for about a week and a half every month, I couldn’t get out of bed. I couldn’t focus on the simplest tasks. Even the most minor inconveniences or disagreements could send me spiraling: my suddenly overwhelming […]

This piece first appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Fallout. Sign up for it here. For the first time since the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade threw the abortion access landscape into a tailspin, the Biden administration found two hospitals violated federal law when they refused to provide an abortion to Mylissa Farmer […]

Did you know that in over 100 countries around the world, you can walk into a pharmacy and buy birth control pills without a prescription? The United States is not one of those countries. In fact, the United States and Western Europe are woefully behind the times on this front: In most other regions of […]

“Brazil is not for beginners,” legendary bossa nova composer Tom Jobim once uttered about our country. In Brazil there can be more lies than meet the eye. It is a very violent place, and is even worse for women, queer, trans and other marginalized people. This is all part of why television host Barbara Thomaz, […]

In her new book You or Someone You Love, writer, clinic worker, and abortion doula Hannah Matthews offers a picture of what abortion care looks like, and what it could look like if we dared to dream and invest in radical, compassionate community care. The book interweaves personal stories—including Matthews’ own abortion story—with the kind […]

Considering this procedure? Then you’re in very good company. In fact, it’s becoming more and more commonplace, particularly here in the United States. While it can bring to mind words such as impossibly painful and very permanent, these are old school characterizations. Urologist Justin K. Houman of Cedar-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles gets it. “Because […]

Conservatives are trying their hardest to resurrect the Comstock Act as a way to ban mailing abortion pills. This week, Imani is joined by special guest and colleague Garnet Henderson, Rewire News Group‘s senior multiplatform reporter and resident Comstock Act expert, to break down how we got here and where we’re going. You won’t be […]

By Siya Angras (she/her), 18, Staff Writer April 28, 2023 Experiencing sexual violence can be physically and emotionally tolling. You might feel isolated, ashamed or scared. Trusting someone else or being vulnerable again may feel challenging. Intimacy after having gone through a traumatic event can feel impossible but it isn’t. It can, however, take time […]