11+ hour, 47+ min ago   (796+ words) I’m Candace. I’m 33 years old, from Jackson, Mississippi, and the mother of three children: a 10-year-old, a 7-year-old and a 1-year-old. Everything I do is based around my kids. Don’t invite me if my kids can’t come. They like being…...

12+ hour, 34+ min ago   (484+ words) If feminism means each of us finding our unique power, and helping other women do the same, Dolly Parton certainly has done both. In 1986 she crossed two more boundaries. Dolly’s Smoky Mountain Christmas, an ABC made-for-television movie based on her…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (194+ words) In this age of legal attacks on birth control access and shifting Medicaid coverage, a new online resource has emerged to educate people about the birth control methods available to them and provide them for no fee. The website FreeBC…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (923+ words) Idaho has one of the nation’s strictest abortion regimes: Abortion is generally criminalized at every stage of pregnancy, with narrow exceptions. As Winmill writes, as a direct consequence of this ban, “a woman’s body itself is conscripted into service and…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (887+ words) New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a law Thursday establishing the nation’s strongest physical protections for gender-affirming care patients and providers, while expanding legal safeguards for reproductive healthcare access. The law, which passed both houses of the legislature in June,…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1089+ words) On Monday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority gave the Trump administration a temporary procedural victory in its effort to interfere with mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms. But despite some alarming headlines, the Court did not rule that President…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1042+ words) I almost bought an Oura Ring at 3:12 in the morning. I was lying awake in my small D.C. apartment, my phone casting a blue glow across my face. I couldn’t sleep. Again. My mind was already racing through the work waiting…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (291+ words) Originally published by The Contrarian on Aug. 20, 2026, “Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize.” I was recently alerted to a new rock opera called 1972 previewing in Boston this fall about women’s lives and abortion in America before Roe v. Wade. The promo…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (232+ words) Content statement: This piece includes discussions of murder, infant death and child abuse, postpartum depression and psychosis, and sanism. The case has laid bare the failures of a U.S. mental healthcare system that did not protect Clancy or her children, and…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (802+ words) Jacqueline Lamba: The Forgotten Surrealist is the story of a woman who, refused to live for others to stay true to herself. Born to parents who wanted a boy, she was named Jacqueline but called “Jacquot,” dressed in boys’ clothing,…...