Health

Disgust, Stigma and the Politics of Abortion

PUBLISHED 5/22/2017 by

Abortion is an emotionally charged issue—not just for those who oppose it. I find it disgusting that white men continue to believe that they have the knowledge, power and political capital to legislate a simple and safe medical procedure for women.

The Chimera of Choice

PUBLISHED 5/19/2017 by

How do we determine where to draw the lines of acceptable and unacceptable bodily interventions? Especially troubling is the eerily uncomfortable overlap of female genital construction surgery and what we define as female genital mutilation.

On Make-Up and Mother’s Day

PUBLISHED 5/11/2017 by

This Mother’s Day, as I take my mom out for a special celebration of all that she taught me about what it means to be a woman, I’ll also think of the messages companies are trying to tell us too.