Menstruation
Self-Taught: Chelsea VonChaz
You have all heard the classic female tale. Whether bleeding through your khaki uniform pants and your mom telling you, “You’re a woman now,” losing your virginity in the back…
Sex + Intimacy
A Sex Educator’s Guide to Erotic Lactation: An Interview with Madison Young
Much has been written about changes that happen to one’s body after giving birth, specifically the shift from viewing the breast as a sexual body part to a life-giving one. …
Body + Body Image
This is What Really Happens After Significant Weight Loss
Reality television shows and glossy magazine covers would lead you to believe that major weight loss makes your life better in every conceivable way. (And that it can happen practically…
Birth Control + Abortion
Ending A Wanted, Late-Term Pregnancy
When I became pregnant for the first time, with my daughter, Georgia, I thought I knew everything I needed to be afraid of about pregnancy. With how common early miscarriages…
Fertility
Filling the void of motherhood as an infertile gay woman
When I was unable to get pregnant, I realized my life could still go on. I sit up, wide awake. It’s dark outside, with a silver haze in the distance….
Pregnancy + Birth
Peanut Founder + CEO Michelle Kennedy Shares the Top Pregnancy Struggles We Need to Open Up About
Everyone always talks about the beauty benefits of being pregnant—the glow, shiny hair and stronger nails…they discuss pregnancy like it’s an Instagram filter! This is not the experience I had…
Pregnancy Loss
Ending A Wanted, Late-Term Pregnancy
When I became pregnant for the first time, with my daughter, Georgia, I thought I knew everything I needed to be afraid of about pregnancy. With how common early miscarriages…
Menopause
Ask the Expert: Dr. Melynda Barnes on Menopause Age, Hot Flashes, & Sex Drive
Let’s talk about menopause. For how totally common and natural this life phase is for women, it can be tough to find helpful, encouraging information out there. So we decided…
