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One day in March 2020, I was in Target near my favorite section by the entrance, where they keep the discounted holiday items that are no longer in season.

Gente Power is a monthly Somos series profiling the Latine activists, cultural workers, educators, and movement leaders creating change in their communitie

Immediately after getting the COVID-19 booster, you might want to celebrate with a cute social media post or a socially distant outing with friends. (Or so

If you’re old enough to have a child, you’re old enough to decide that you don’t want them. Each year, around 700,000 child-bearing people choose to

In the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, if you believe in abortion, reproductive health, or myriad other human rights, you may be feeling, well, a lot.

There’s no good time to find out you’re pregnant if you don’t want to be. But the timing for KT Volkova was particularly troubling. They took a pregn

Democrat-blue balloons and bawling women — that’s what El Sanchez thought of immediately when they first learned of the Supreme Court draft opinion th

This story has been updated to reflect the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973

This story has been updated to reflect the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court. Dr. Yari Vale Moreno is hiring an armed security guard to stand

As if people with uteruses didn’t have enough to worry about since the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that signaled the end of Roe v. Wade, more info

I spent November of last year weeping and sleeping. Too exhausted for suicidal ideation, I simply didn’t want to be awake. As a domestic abuse survivor,

On September 15, 2021, Madi* found herself in the bathroom of her sorority house, holding a positive pregnancy test. The first thought that went through he

In the 1950s, a Black woman named Henrietta Lacks walked into Johns Hopkins Hospital to be treated for cervical cancer, and her cells would go on to b

“The disabled and elderly are the most likely to die from this virus.” I closed my eyes and beat back the desire to scream-cry at the news before me. I

There’s far more to consent than “no means no” — not that you’d know it from what we’re taught in sex ed. Canada’s cu

Update: On Monday, August 23, the FDA approved the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, making it the first officially licensed vaccine against the coronaviru

In light of rising COVID-19 cases and the highly contagious Delta variant, the Biden Administration announced on Wednesday that Americans who received the

Biotech company Moderna, the same company behind one of the COVID-19 vaccines, is expected to start human trials this week for two mRNA-based HIV vaccines,