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My Abortion Was My Lifeline—Getting It Felt Like A Battle For Survival

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How The Real Housewives Helped Me Through My Own Black Maternal Health ...

L'Oréal Blackett

Your Exercise Routine Can Be Compatible With Your Period — Here’s How

It’s Time To End The Tampon Tax

We’re getting personal about our periods. The path to menstrual equity starts with talking about it. Whoever thinks tampons and pads are lu

by Elizabeth Gulino

It’s 2024 — Why Isn’t Every Workplace A Period-Positive One?

We’re getting personal about our periods. The path to menstrual equity starts with talking about it. Debbie Herrera has been working on the influence

by Elizabeth Gulino

Free Pads & Tampons Are Supposed To Be Available In Schools. So W...

When Alisa Nudar needed a tampon unexpectedly in math class during her junior year at Bard High School Early College Queens, she was left with only a few o

by Suzanne Herman

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For South Asian Women With PCOS, It’s Not Just Symptoms We’re Dea...

My Period: We’re getting personal about our periods. The path to menstrual equity starts with talking about it. I was familiar with polycystic ovary

My Heavy Periods Left Me Dangerously Anemic. Why Wasn’t I T...

My Period: We’re getting personal about our periods. The path to menstrual equity starts with talking about it. Trigger warning: This article discuss

by L'Oréal Blackett

5 Women On The Effect Of Having A Good First Period

by Elizabeth Gulino

My Heavy Periods Make Me Feel Like A Social Burden

My Period: We’re getting personal about our periods. The path to menstrual equity starts with talking about it. My heavy, abnormal periods make life

Why Your Period Symptoms Might Be Worse In The Winter

This story was originally published by our partners at The Conversation. Period symptoms are frustrating no matter the time of year. But some women and peo

by Jahnavi Daru

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It’s 2023 — Why Is There Still So Much Shame Around Peri...

From what I remember of one particular teen magazine in the early aughts, there was a monthly column that comprised submissions from readers who recounted

by Andrea Cheng

Tampons Are Expensive. These Brands Want To Pay You Back For Them

When you think of luxury items, your mind might go to high-end cars, diamond rings, aged whiskey, and designer handbags — not tampons. But menstrual prod

by Elizabeth Gulino

Dedicated Feature

How Getting Breast Cancer In My 20s Changed My Relationship With ...

My day started out normal, a day like any other. It was the middle of summer last year, and I decided to go to the gym. After my workout, I went home and s

by Kianna Walker

From South America to the American South, Abortion Bans Devastate...

More than one year after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June of 2022, local governments banned abortion in 14 states — and according to a s

by Nicole Froio

We Asked Cis Men If They’d Actually Take The Male Contracep...

Mood changes. Acne. Low libido. As anyone who’s taken hormonal contraception knows, these are just some of the side effects people prescribed birth contr

by Catriona Morton

I Had A 10cm Ovarian Cyst But Doctors Didn’t Believe Me

When Selling Sunset’s Chrishell Stause and model Hailey Bieber recently revealed they were suffering with ovarian cysts, I knew full well how they felt.

by Lauren Potts

Period Flu: The Endometriosis Symptom Your Doctor’s Probabl...

Around 2014 I found myself regularly coming down with classic flu symptoms. A raised temperature, sore throat, aching limbs, heavy fatigue, and sore lymph

by Lisa Sinclair

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“We’re Going To Make Our Presence Known”: 5 Teens On The Bill To ...

In public schools in Florida, books are banned and you better not talk about your period. A year after Gov. Ron DeSantis (FL–R.) signed into law the

by Fortesa Latifi

Everything That Happened When I Came Off The Pill After 6 Years

I went on the contraceptive pill when I was 17 without knowing much about what it would do to my body. I’d see my friends pull out the plastic packets du

by Alice Porter

Like Keke Palmer, I Have PCOS. Her Pregnancy Reveal Gave Me Hope

“You have a condition called polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS),” confirms my GP. I’d waited twenty-one years to hear those words. “Do you pl

by Vanessa Haye

Here’s How I Cope As A Black Girl With Iron-Deficiency Anemia

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.

by Princess Owens

I Don’t Want To Be A Mother. Why Is It So Hard To Get My Tubes Tied?

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

by Elizabeth Gulino

Fertility Diaries

Fertility Diary: I’m A Queer Woman Doing Fertility Treatments Solo

Welcome to Refinery29’s Fertility Diaries, where people chronicle their joyous, painful, and sometimes complicated paths to parenthood. Today, we hear fr

A Fertility Doctor On How Abortion Decisions Could Impact IVF

Welcome to Refinery29’s Fertility Diaries, where people chronicle their joyous, painful, and sometimes complicated paths to parenthood. Today, we hear fr

by Courtney Shea

For Black Women In The UK, A Fear Of Pregnancy Is Far From Irrati...

Unbothered’s Birth Rights acknowledges inspiring mothers and showcases the beautiful diversity and depth of Black parenthood. As Black birthing peopl

by L'Oréal Blackett

I’m Black, Pregnant & Refusing To Give Birth In A Hospital For My...

Unbothered’s Birth Rights acknowledges inspiring mothers and showcases the beautiful diversity and depth of Black parenthood. As Black birthing peopl

My Endometriosis Was Misdiagnosed As Bipolar Disorder

Maria is in her late 20s and living with endometriosis. She is now working on a PhD on the history of the disease, and exploration of patient experiences w

by Hannah Turner

Fertility Diaries

I Froze My Eggs After Getting Diagnosed With Endometriosis In my 20s

Welcome to Refinery29’s Fertility Diaries, where people chronicle their joyous, painful, and sometimes complicated paths to parenthood. Have your ow

Fertility Diaries

I’m Struggling With Fertility & Wish I Could Tell My Coworkers

Welcome to Refinery29’s Fertility Diaries, where people chronicle their joyous, painful, and sometimes complicated paths to parenthood. Have your own&nbs

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