Recently, I have been hearkening back to my literary year–1988. That was in college when I had a feminist poetry class, and also the last time I read such material in depth. Not that it was a chore back then. I was intrigued by the irreverent, political, intellectually fierce and nakedly honest material, which grabbed me [...]
Before there was The Vagina Monologues, there were the pelvic instructors. These women, from Boston’s Women’s Community Health Center, were radical in not only instructing medical students in female sexual anatomy but in also using their own bodies as models. Their short-lived yet highly symbolic program took place from 1975 to 1976 at Harvard Medical [...]
Like with Jane, most of the women served by the Chicago Abortion Fund are poor African American women, But a change with CAF is that African American women are those actually running things.
The men of “Hot Tub” are funny, while the women of SATC are “desperate.”
Illness is not a gift. Do you know what a gift is? Earrings.
As a result of the lack of federal funding, ‘there has been virtually no innovation in migraine research’ since 1992, said Dr. Shapiro.
Yes, Ms. readers, pain makes interesting bedfellows, which I’ll gladly take, even in the form of Republican beer heiresses. I am certain that anyone who has ever had a migraine will understand.
