LATER THIS YEAR, my home state of California will become the first to provide oral contraceptives over the counter, after months of wondering whether birth…
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ONE IN FOUR WOMEN will have a miscarriage during her lifetime. I knew the numbers were high, but twenty-five freaking percent, that’s huge. What’s more baffling, though,…
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CYCLE TECHNOLOGIES describes their fertility awareness tools as “brilliantly simple.” Leslie Heyer founded the company in 2002, and since then she has developed the physical…
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YOU’RE GOING TO BEAT THIS. He’s fighting for his life. She’s a cancer survivor. Phrases like these pepper any conversation you encounter regarding people living…
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IT’S NO SECRET that hormone levels in a woman’s body are often fluctuating at any given time (and that a woman’s body was designed to…
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IF HEADLINES ARE ANYTHING TO GO BY, an increasing number of women are rejecting hormonal contraceptives for the sympto-thermal method of fertility awareness. According to…
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I’VE ALREADY TALKED about how problematic reality network Bravo’s Shahs of Sunset can be, with its one-dimensional representation of the Los Angeles Iranian-American community as…
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IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, periods have gone public. Menstruation activism has been pushed up to the top of the feminist agenda, with women in…
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JENNIFER ALDORETTA, a trained engineer, created the Groove app when she realized that that she could combine her experience with side effects on the Pill with her…
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MOODY BITCHES, a groundbreaking book by psychiatrist Dr. Julie Holland that calls for society to reconsider how it views female “moodiness,” has whipped up controversy in…
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IN A RECENT EPISODE of Real Time with Bill Maher — one that I could actually sit through without yelling and muttering to myself —…
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I DON’T THINK I started having the self-perception and body image issues that have been plaguing me most of my life until the eighth grade,…
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