If Miscarriage is So Normal, Why Doesn’t Anybody Talk About It? By Anna Lea Hand Feature When she loses a pregnancy, Anna Lea Hand searches in vain for vital advice and information.
When It’s Time to Tell By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The silence that once protected one woman from memories of her abusive ex-boyfriend and further abuse was now the silence she needed to free herself from.
Communiqué from an Exurban Satellite Clinic of a Cancer Pavilion Named after a Financier By Longreads Feature Anne Boyer encounters a familiar system — that grand and easy-to-mistake-for-everything system — at the cancer pavilion.
Prayers to Lucia By Heather Quinn Feature When a high-risk pregnancy jeopardizes their eyesight, Heather Quinn explores the expectations of motherhood and finds common ground with a patron saint.
After Three Children, Reclaiming My Body and My Mind By Ukamaka Olisakwe Feature In the wake of childbirth and postpartum complications affecting her mental health and her marriage, Ukamaka Olisakwe picks herself up and starts over — in grad school.
Yentl Syndrome: A Deadly Data Bias Against Women By Longreads Feature The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes — and how much danger women are in.
‘Brokenness and Holiness Really Go Together’: Darcey Steinke on Menopause By Jane Ratcliffe Feature Darcey Steinke says that most menopause memoirs “end with this come-to-Jesus moment of, ‘Then I accepted hormones.’ I’m not against it, but … I wanted to hear what it’s like for other women.”
Demonology: A Woman’s Right to Fury By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her new book, Darcey Steinke investigates — and debunks — the demonization of anger within the female body.
True Roots By Longreads Feature One woman quits coloring her gray hair and investigates the human and environmental costs of this contentious female beauty standard.
Preparing for a Post-Roe America By Laura Barcella Feature Activist and author Robin Marty says the biggest threat facing women in a post-Roe America would be arrest, not death.
The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester By Sara Fredman Feature On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.
The Wheel, the Woman, and the Human Body By Aaron Gilbreath Feature How the newly evolved bicycle helped liberate women and modernize America’s concept of fitness.
A Frustrating Year of Reporting on Black Maternal Health By Danielle Jackson Feature Stories of women of color dying of childbirth have dominated headlines — but little has been done to change postpartum care.
Black Women’s Maternal Mortality Rates in the US are Staggeringly High By Danielle Jackson Highlight Shalon Irving was educated, insured, and well-supported by family and friends. She still became a casualty of missed opportunities and neglect by healthcare providers.
I Think, Therefore I Am Getting the Goddamned Epidural By Rebecca Schuman Feature On midwives, metaphysics, and intensely natural births.
Donald Trump’s War On African Women By Annie Hylton Feature Under the Global Gag Rule, medical professionals cannot counsel a woman to seek an abortion — even in cases where it will save her life.
The Case for Believing Women Who Are In Pain By Danielle Tcholakian Highlight Sixteen percent of women suffer from a condition you’ve probably never heard of.
RAWR! What’s Happening to Me? The Truth is Out There (About Menopause) By Krista Stevens Highlight Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel speak frankly about perimenopause and menopause to destigmatize the flow and ebb of the female reproductive cycle.
‘A Uterus Gone Rogue’: Diagnosing Endometriosis By Michelle Weber Highlight A raw look at the discomfort, confusion, and anger of being diagnosed and dealing with endometriosis, a painful reproductive disorder with mysterious origins, and no cure.
