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Putting Periods on the Agenda

Andrew Cuomo’s push for free menstrual products in school restrooms for girls in New York state underscores how rapidly the menstrual equity movement has become politically favorable and mainstream.

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The Fight that Follows Pain and Prejudice

Carol Head

The time to fight for women with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis—often called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome—who have been dismissed and ignored is now. Here’s how.

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#KnowTheFlow: Gift-Wrapping Menstrual Equity for Valentine’s Day

Tiernan Hebron

No offense to all those romantic cliches, but everyone knows that buying items like boxes of chocolates isn’t a true measure of love. Buying a person a box of tampons, on the other hand? That’s when you know it’s real.

Challenging Anti-Abortion Junk Science, One Billboard at a Time

Michele Sleighel

A network of independent abortion providers are pushing back on the latest string of anti-abortion rhetoric in a big way.

Pregnant Workers Facing Discrimination Need a #MeToo Movement

Carrie N. Baker

Pregnancy discrimination in the workplace has been illegal for four decades, but employers still use pregnancy as an excuse to push women out of the workplace, especially in blue-collar jobs. Just ask Amanda Van Fleet.

Facing the Complicated Truth About FGM

Rachel Clement

Complex issues necessitate complex solutions. Women and girls who are facing FGM/C deserve more than lip service from the U.S. government; they deserve our full support.

We Heart: The Web Series Using Humor to Smash Abortion Stigma

Tiernan Hebron

“I would love for everyone to say ‘I know someone who’s had an abortion, or I know someone who runs a clinic, because I watched CTRL ALT DELETE.'”

Safe and Supported: Inside the DIY Abortion Movement

Carrie N. Baker and Emily Bellanca

As abortion becomes harder to access, more and more women are taking matters into their own hands with self-managed abortion—buying abortion pills on the internet and using them without medical supervision.

Student Activists and Lawmakers Want to Bring Medication Abortion to California Campuses

Kylie Cheung

A student government resolution passed two years ago at UC Berkeley inspired legislation that would require public colleges in California to offer medication abortion in campus health centers.

The Global Gag Rule Still Matters

Elspeth Williams

Whether in our own backyard or beyond our borders, we cannot allow bad policy and funding cuts to cost women and girls their lives.

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