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I was the one who needed to "transition;" my child needed to grow into who they were meant to be.

How My Child Helped My Transition With Their Transition

On T.I., sanctioned abuse, and the social construct of virginity

Not All (Hy)men

Songs for the streets & in the sheets.

Sun/Moon/Rising

The Pulpit Presents: Fight Songs

How My Menstrual Cycle’s Return Made Me Feel Complete

Not A Period, Just An Em Dash

Sasha Torchinsky

Dear Ellen: How Hard Candy Taught Me About Consent

Fighting bi-erasure gets even trickier once you’ve given birth.

Bisexuality And Unexpected Pregnancy

Pamela Rafalow Grossman

the doctor is in

What’s Cancer Like? Having Lived Through The Trump Presidency, You Already Know

How Bernie Sanders Failed Feminists

Notes From A Wannabe Bernie Babe

My mother would be proud. Really.

50, And A Reluctant Porn Star

“The Southern way of treating it is like a disease, like sex is something that once you catch it...

‘Between The Bills’ Episode Three: The Human Wreckage Left Behind In Sexual Education

An Interview With Nashville-Based Artist, Daena

Music As An Integration Of Feeling

“We emotionally anthropomorphize the disease, we take it personally. We’re suddenly at war.

Emily Rose Thorne

BetweenTheBills

‘Between The Bills’ Episode Six: A Pandemic, The Body, And You

We’re all inhabiting the very thing that threatens our demise. Our bodies.

A Bodily Reckoning Amongst The Coronavirus

Not understanding the nuances of my sexuality, I concluded that suppressing one side of my...

Straddling Borders: The Surprising Bond Between Borderline Personality Disorder And Bisexuality

“I believe that on the other side of this loss is a love that I have found in connection."

Colleen Rothman

The Crisis Of American Motherhood: Reading Sarah Menkedick’s New Book “Ordinary Insanity”

I'm in a prison inside a prison.

Quarantined In The Room I Was Assaulted In

The price of opinions in the anti-trafficking movement

You're Not A “Real” Survivor

Porn reflects society, and new adult content is transforming our dialogue around gender and race.

Santiago Cárdenas

The Silver Lining Of COVID Is The Overhaul Of Porn Production

The world is built around walkers and drivers. Being something in-between makes people...

Biking While Trans

Our favorite places to peruse everything metaphysical. (Because it's already been a long year.)

Finley Muratova

New Year Occult Gift Guide To Bolster Magic (And Your Spirits)

Whips and chains aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.

The Secret Life Of A Professional Dominatrix

Choosing not to become a mother is just as powerful as making the decision to become one.

Céline Bossart

Getting A Legal Abortion Was The Greatest Choice Of My Life

“Maybe you should be more careful.” Translation: “Maybe you should stop being a slut."

Laura Weinstein

"I'm Clean. I Assume You Are, Too": It Has Never Been More Timely To De-Stigmatize STIs

As I washed my feet, I thought of how unfeminine I felt, how sad and heavy I felt at the...

Of men and money

The Foot Fetishized, The Brain Dissociated, And The Body In-Between

There seems to be a gap between word and action, and in that gap there is silence.

Silence In The Age of Enthusiastic Consent

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mental and physical health // reproductive justice

Some women identify with Ripley. Not me. I’m with that baby-obsessed xenomorph all the way. We...

Katherine Fusco

The Monstrousness of Motherhood: On 'Aliens' And Making Life

What is “natural” is actually just culture. It's all a construct.

“It’s Only Natural”: The Dubious Science Sanctioning Sexism

On the bodily experience of crisis and the importance of cognitive dissonance.

The Magic Of The Lizard Self

Pamela Rafalow Grossman

the doctor is in

What’s Cancer Like? Having Lived Through The Trump Presidency, You Already Know

The Y is an unlikely place to ponder one’s relationship to their body—to all bodies—but here I am.

grin and bare it

The Critical Importance Of Being Naked In Public

I’ve relearned the joy of what to means to feed one another.

The Taste Of Memory

Paradigm Media was bound to be a success.

Finley Muratova

When Wellness in Business Strikes a Cord

An interview with cop turned call girl turned activist — Norma Jean Almodovar

Women's History Month

Fear and Loathing in America: Whorephobia and Workers’ Rights

“I think until everybody has heard from a happy sex worker who chose this life, we won’t be...

Shauna Blackmon

Sex Worker Artist Hadas Hinkis Sings To Celebrate Whores

The air is terrible. Everything smells like burning. Some of what we’re breathing is bodies.

Pamela Rafalow Grossman

Missing: The Fliers Of 9/11, The Lives Behind The Photographs‍

Why the radical charity on the high seas is still vital and needs our support.

Josie Klakstrom

The Enduring Importance of 'The Abortion Boat'

Jessie Sage and Annie Solomon

Finding The Right Therapist Is Rough Enough, Now Imagine You're A Sex Worker

Assault is complicated, and we are in the midst of a tumultuous language struggle over it.

Allison Lirish Dean

it's all in the details

AOC, And What We Talk About When We Talk About Sexual Assault

“Liberal people throughout the country tend to write off the South because of racist stereotypes".

Emily Rose Thorne

‘Between The Bills’ Episode One: Recognizing The Feminist South

Pakistan is not alone in performing these degrading tests of sanctioned, gender-based violence.

Q&A With Sameer Khosa, Lawyer In Lahore's "Two-Finger Virginity Test" Case

Betsy DeVos' resigned, but her history of sanctioned bigotry and discrimination lingers on.

Finley Muratova

Don’t Forget The Terrible Legacy Of Betsy DeVos

For Black men, the most perilous emotion to publicly display is vulnerability.

dangerous stereotypes

Black Men On The Record About Vulnerability, Race, And Sexual Assault

"I had no sense of joy. I had no desire to be loving to my child. Depression hit me like a truck."

The Doctor Is Out

During Pandemic Panic, Those with Perinatal Depression Are Being Forgotten

It’s capitalistic, cognitive dissonance that pop stars are empowered, but strippers are shamed.

Mamas, Don’t Let Your Daughters Grow Up To Be Strippers

As a fat woman, if I celebrated binge-eating I would be told to get professional help.

Cazzie David Is Just Another Thin Woman Bragging About How Much She Eats

“Maybe you should be more careful.” Translation: “Maybe you should stop being a slut."

Laura Weinstein

"I'm Clean. I Assume You Are, Too": It Has Never Been More Timely To De-Stigmatize STIs

Once I was an ouroboros eating her own tail, an uncertainty caught between past and present.

Emily Sinclair Montague

this bodily knowing

I Was Raped Seven Years Ago, And Have Finally Returned To My Body

You talk to your body and you talk to the cancer because it’s a part of your body, always has been.

You Are A Person Who Wears A Wig

We should not have to beg for our lives because some Americans believe in God.

theregoestheneighborhood

Senator Gary Peters’ Abortion Story Isn’t Progressive, It’s A Reminder Church And State Are Collapsing

ACB’s “likeability” is precisely why she is such a threat.

Snake in the Grass

Everything You Need To Know About Amy Coney Barrett’s Stance On Abortion

The Disposable Sex Worker trope should be familiar to anyone who has seen a crime drama.

“When They’re Dead, They’re Just Hookers”

I'd been pitting my body and brain against each other. My mind had always won, my body always...

When The Body Aches It Tells The Truth

4-year-old, 5-year-old, 9-year-old me promising, to myself, to God, maybe even to The Devil: this...

can't touch this

Childhood Masturbation And The Reclamation Of The Self

At 37, I have about 25,000 eggs left. I'm too young to start panicking, too old to relax.

Elizabeth Cauvel

Good Eggs

On T.I., sanctioned abuse, and the social construct of virginity

Not All (Hy)men

Periods shouldn’t be used as an excuse to appear slovenly, but instead I should clean my nails...

Emilie Haertsche

“You’re A Young Lady Now” : Menstruation Pamphlets And Coming Of Age

Meet Priscilla Kelly. Her wrestling persona spits in the face of years of humiliation and abuse...

Scarlett Harris

and in this corner...

Wrestling With Menstruation

Abortion rights are now under threat in Germany by the same far-right forces that have laid siege...

The Nazi Law Being Weaponized By Far-Right Extremists

The infamous serial killer tells us a lot about toxic masculinity today.

Jessica Wildfire

if looks could kill

Ted Bundy: The First Incel

How can people be expected to make such a critical choice without their communities’ support? We...

"It’s Complicated": LGBTQ Folks Weigh-In On Abortion Rights

After my diagnosis, I felt like my life had become a maze of complicated secrets. I couldn’t...

Sarah Clyne Sundberg

Bad Blood: On Having Hepatitis C

The origins are as old as the record is of women who care for women, that is to say, old as the...

Tale As Old As Time

The Vital Work And History Of Abortion Doulas

Call it gender identity. Call it emotional labor. Call it a million things because it's not as...

The Great Divide: Gender And The Classroom

As I washed my feet, I thought of how unfeminine I felt, how sad and heavy I felt at the...

Of men and money

The Foot Fetishized, The Brain Dissociated, And The Body In-Between

Choosing not to become a mother is just as powerful as making the decision to become one.

Céline Bossart

Getting A Legal Abortion Was The Greatest Choice Of My Life

This is not a complete history, because some things are too much to speak of and too sacred to...

A Brief History Of My Body

How do I talk about all of the moments that weren’t healthy, but were also clearly not rape? How...

How We’ve Normalized Sexual Coercion And How To Flip The Script

To distance ourselves from the “the ugly” is, in our society, to be wise. To be ugly is to be...

This Is Gonna Scar

Misadventures in birth control.

Lauren Harkawik

Stranger than Fiction

To My Missing IUD, Wherever You Are

Amidst all that cooking and eating, we are reminded of the bodies we don't have, symbols of the...

Your Fat Friend

PasstheApologies

Being Better To Your Fat Friend This Thanksgiving

We wanted two kids, but one at a time. It would be so much easier with one. We can do this, we...

Mourning a Possibility

Vanishing Twin Syndrome

You may think I was just a slut, that I deserved what I got. You may even believe when I say...

Karla J. Strand

America the Beautiful

Statutory Rape Is Rape. And We’ve Ignored It For Long Enough

Anti-trafficking campaigns contribute to a culture that doesn’t flinch when we die in high numbers..

Vanessa Carlisle

Showing Up: In Solidarity With The International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers

Our culture reaffirms that if there isn’t proof of assault, then it didn’t happen.

Cassidy Scanlon

the sound of silence

Punk Rock Intervention

If I become pregnant and I don’t know it, it could end itself, and it could end me with it.

#mybodymychoice

Intrauterine: The Consequences Of Failed Birth Control

All this bending of our bodies to our will — IVF, surrogates, egg freezing — are we not divining...

forbidden fruit

Are Children Another Kind Of Eternity?

“Why haven’t we long ago questioned why everything we need isn’t in the bathroom?”

“Between The Bills” Episode Four: Period Poverty And Menstrual Equity

The official impetus to silence women sees one of its earliest iterations in the outlaw of the...

Cristina Farella

On Ancient Greek Lamentation And Women In Democracy

“Is this as good as it will be?” The nurse smiled and told me the skin had “healed nicely.” Fixed...

Josephine Sargent

Giving Birth Left Me With Lifelong Scars

There seems to be a gap between word and action, and in that gap there is silence.

Silence In The Age of Enthusiastic Consent

According to the ACLU, the maternal death rate for Black women in Georgia is twice that for white...

‘Between The Bills’ Episode Two: The Painful, Underfunded, Misogynistic Mystery Of PCOS

“The Southern way of treating it is like a disease, like sex is something that once you catch it...

‘Between The Bills’ Episode Three: The Human Wreckage Left Behind In Sexual Education

Maternal martyrdom is programmed in at the cellular level.

Olivia Campbell

areola borealis

My Nipples, Myself

I thought they were a gift I had to sacrifice for my joy—and I was fine, until I wasn’t

I Stopped Taking My Antidepressants So I Could Orgasm

Unstigmatize Yourself

Vanessa Carlisle

How to Support Sex Workers

Thanksgiving celebrating abundance. Dieting is desire & deprivation. I was in the bull's eye.

How I Learned That Food—Unlike Morality — Doesn’t Have A Positive Or Negative Charge

Their coffers are empty.

Anne-Marie Keppel

Death With DIgnity

Death Doulas Make It Rain...Tears

“I believe that on the other side of this loss is a love that I have found in connection."

Colleen Rothman

The Crisis Of American Motherhood: Reading Sarah Menkedick’s New Book “Ordinary Insanity”

This notion of birth as a balm for death feels — natural, now.

Birth Death Cycle

Parenting A Dying Parent Made Me Realize How Much I Wanted To Mother

How My Menstrual Cycle’s Return Made Me Feel Complete

Not A Period, Just An Em Dash

During a pandemic, we have even less resources than we usually do.

Advice On Combatting Disordered Eating While In Quarantine

Get married anyway.

Before Corona Ever Happened, I Had A Socially Distant Wedding

How Bernie Sanders Failed Feminists

Notes From A Wannabe Bernie Babe

“We emotionally anthropomorphize the disease, we take it personally. We’re suddenly at war.

Emily Rose Thorne

BetweenTheBills

‘Between The Bills’ Episode Six: A Pandemic, The Body, And You

Am I not more willing to listen to my attractive friends? I am just as culpable.

Some Thoughts on Ugliness

I called it temporary. I changed the subject.

Sossity Chiricuzio

Leaving The House: On Chronic Pain And Mourning The Body

In the grand grief-scape of my heart, there’s comfort in knowing there’s science behind death.

Going Going Gone

On The Finite Nature Of Humans

We’re all inhabiting the very thing that threatens our demise. Our bodies.

A Bodily Reckoning Amongst The Coronavirus

Do we need the DSM and a medical diagnosis to be there at all? Who is it helping?

Not Confused, Not Crazy: On Being A Non-Binary Radical Mental Health Advocate

On this nasty day.

Six Nasty Women Worth Remembering

“With HIV, we can prosecute it, or we can prevent it. You can’t do both.”

Emily Rose Thorne

Between The Bills’ Episode Five: The Criminalization of HIV/AIDS

The international sex work political landscape.

Arnold Viersen’s Parliamentary Stunt To Shame Canadian Sex Workers

But My Brain Won’t Allow It

My Body Tries To Have Children

How my IUD insertion was the nightmare of my life.

Foreign Objects

IUD, You Owe Me

Standing with my daughter beneath the full sap moon, I sensed some primal reconnection.

An Auspicious Time To Start Bleeding

What many don't realize about AB5.

Strippers And Giggers: Unionize Now!

Revolutions in Zimbabwe have wreaked havoc on the body.

What Of Zimbabwe’s Story — What Of Zimbabwe’s Future?

30% of all women ages 18 to 59 report difficulty with pain the last time they had sex. So why...

Depicting the Truth Of Painful Sex on Television

I'm close to falling asleep when I feel someone slide into my bed and breathe. There's no one there.

bump in the night

Sexual Assault Made Sleep A Stranger

The rhythm of sex—without ever saying out loud, 'let’s try this in quarter notes'—amazes me.

Fit To Bust: The Neuroscience Of Sex And Rock ‘N Roll

I now question the stories that convinced me I was right in turning my back on a friend in need.

To Change My Mind: Catholicism, Abortion, And Choice

I am not nervous that my doctor will find something. I’m nervous that she won’t.

the doctor is out

You’re Overreacting: The Lineage Of Hypochondria And Gender

I learned to fear my body at the same time I learned my ABC’s, early on at a small Baptist church.

Kayti Christian

Parables From The Pulpit

The price of opinions in the anti-trafficking movement

You're Not A “Real” Survivor

Definitions govern things like relationship and power. Things like ‘premenstrual dysphoric disorder'

Madder than hell

On Being Crazy

Blocking access sacrifices the vulnerable to the “greater good” of the wealthy, white and male.

This Is What Happens When Abortions Are Deemed ‘Unessential’

The pandemic is worth the learning we will do, even though we don’t quite know how yet.

If The Pandemic Is Hard For You, Consider That We’ve Never Been Taught Stillness

“you don’t have the right to choose. The state will choose for you.”

What It Actually Means to be pro-choice

I’m not sure the jobsite or the lumberyard or the trades can handle me and my body deep in a new...

If I Had a Hammer

On Being A Pregnant Carpenter

Unless we use this time to question society’s fundamental iniquity, history will repeat itself.

Global Feminism

Surviving Within A Capitalist Society Is Not Feminist Per Se

I‘ll just blurt it out before I lose my nerve. I smell.

the truth hurts

The Strange And Elusive Science Of Smell And Sex

How much of the unfulfilling sex that’s had with cis het men is caused by lack of effort, and how...

How Can We Say Yes If We Can't Say No?

His sheets were orange, the same color as your middle school soccer team. You remember when he...

Friday, Or, You Just Wanted To Sleep

I'm in a prison inside a prison.

Quarantined In The Room I Was Assaulted In

In the contemporary United States, few practices are as taken for granted as the deliberate...

Genevieve Walker

What could be scarier than a Hairy Woman?

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