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Women’s health

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A Personal History of the C-Section

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 22, 2021October 19, 2022

“When my daughter’s delivery went off the script I had imagined, it made me wonder about what we ask from our birth stories.”

Posted inNonfiction

If Miscarriage is So Normal, Why Doesn’t Anybody Talk About It?

by Anna Lea Hand March 2, 2020December 16, 2022

When she loses a pregnancy, Anna Lea Hand searches in vain for vital advice and information.

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

When It’s Time to Tell

by Aaron Gilbreath February 20, 2020October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inNonfiction

Communiqué from an Exurban Satellite Clinic of a Cancer Pavilion Named after a Financier

by Longreads September 18, 2019January 27, 2023

Anne Boyer encounters a familiar system — that grand and easy-to-mistake-for-everything system — at the cancer pavilion.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

Prayers to Lucia

by Heather Quinn September 11, 2019January 27, 2023

When a high-risk pregnancy jeopardizes their eyesight, Heather Quinn explores the expectations of motherhood and finds common ground with a patron saint.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

After Three Children, Reclaiming My Body and My Mind

by Ukamaka Olisakwe September 11, 2019January 27, 2023

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.

Posted inEditor's Pick

My Unsexual Revolution

by Sari Botton July 10, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Diane Shipley confronts her history of sexual dysfunction and wonders who decides what “normal” is, anyway.

Posted inBooks, Science & Nature, Story, Technology

Yentl Syndrome: A Deadly Data Bias Against Women

by Longreads June 21, 2019October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Unapologetic Women

‘Brokenness and Holiness Really Go Together’: Darcey Steinke on Menopause

by Jane Ratcliffe June 14, 2019October 19, 2022

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.”

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

Demonology: A Woman’s Right to Fury

by Longreads June 10, 2019October 19, 2022

In an excerpt from her new book, Darcey Steinke investigates — and debunks — the demonization of anger within the female body.

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