As Joy Notoma grapples with uterine fibroids, harmful biases in the medical establishment, and a move from Brooklyn to West Africa she wonders where, as a black woman, she can find safety.
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The Faces of Obamacare
As the GOP discusses repealing the Affordable Care Act, it’s essential to look at some of the lives that nationalized health care has improved and saved, and at the activists who helped get eligible people enrolled. Here are a few from Texas.
Posted inNonfiction
At Transformation
On the cusp of a life-changing procedure, Jane Rideau Demuth makes peace with the paths that brought her here, and the obstacles she had to wrestle with along the way.
Posted inCollege, Nonfiction, Sports, Story
Is It Ever Too Late to Pursue a Dream?
Dan Stoddard believes there is room in the NBA for a 42-year-old rookie.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction
The Mutilated and the Disappeared
A visit to the only shelter in Mexico for migrants who have been mutilated along the migrant trail.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
The Mutilated and the Disappeared
A visit to the only shelter in Mexico for migrants who have been mutilated along the migrant trail.
Posted inUncategorized
Flagrant Foul: Benching Teen Moms Before Title IX
As a high schooler and new mom, Jane Rubel didn’t consider herself a feminist. She just knew that if husbands and fathers were eligible to play high school basketball, she should have been, too.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Nonfiction
When You’re Broken by Breaking News
If reporting becomes excessive, it can do more harm than good.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Two Scoops of Ice Cream for Him, One for You
Donald Trump led the editors of TIME through an evening at the White House that was both typical and strange.
Posted inNonfiction
Where Am I?
After a lifetime of alienation, one woman discovered how her spacial disorientation could be a gift that connected her to strangers and made her less alone.
