Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on sexuality and includes content relating to sexuality, sexual identity, sexual orientation, reproduction, reproductive rights, abortion rights.
When the cultural historian Clair Wills was in graduate school at Oxford in the late 1980s, she became pregnant by accident. She…
I have suffered from persistent fatigue in recent months. Fatigueā¦ the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate 3.3 million Americans…
The sexual revolution may have reached its high-water mark 50 years ago, the week of August 5, 1973, whenĀ The Joy of Sex:…
Early on Thursday, June 29, banners were dropped over Interstate-95 coming into Philadelphia that read āPhilly Protects Trans Kidsā and āBad Things…
For a second week, Montana Republicans have blocked Democratic transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from participating in a debate over proposed restrictions on…
What makes a good society? Is it a guaranteed right to pursue happiness, as our Declaration of Independence proclaimed? Perhaps, asĀ Gandhi said,…
This year, while US conservatives led the Supreme Court to remove constitutional protection for abortion, feminists across Latin America and the Caribbean moved…
Jacora Johnson, a 22-year-old Texas resident, is facing a difficult and potentially painful decision. They currently use the Depo-Provera shot, a type…
The resounding ballot victory to keep abortion protections in the state constitutionĀ of deep-red Kansas is a rebuke to the Republicanās far-rightĀ agenda. Itās…
The Reproductive Freedom for All initiative campaign recently submitted 753,759 signatures from every county in Michigan āĀ far exceeding the required 425,059…
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