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Your Period as the 5th Vital Sign: The Importance of Menstrual Education in Ending Stigma
From our first periods, menstruators have been told that debilitating cramps and intense mood swings are all just a part of living in our bodies. I had grown up being taught that my period would be a bother; a natural process that I should hide. This left me with pits in my stomach as I
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Episiotomies and Gender Bias in Birth
For decades, episiotomies, surgical cuts made during childbirth to widen the vaginal opening, were performed as a matter of routine in U.S. hospitals. Many women never questioned them. Some were never even asked. But behind this once-common practice lies a deeper story, one about gender, power, and the medicalization of birth. What Is an Episiotomy,