It was 2004 when my life changed. It was 3 months after I had stopped taking birth control (alesse) and my hair was coming out in ropes. I’ll never forget taking a shower before going out one Friday evening, and my hands were covered with hair. At the time, I had no clue that ...
Migrant Women’s Bodies in Transit: From Sub-Saharan Africa to Spain in Real Life and Film From a Japanese Notebook: Afro-Asian Critical Cosmopolitanisms in William Demby’s 1950s Reportage from Postwar Japan Lost in Transnation: Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go Truncated Cosmopolitanisms: ...
Someone told me she was worried about giving birth prematurely if she walked too much. I asked if she has had issues in her pregnancy so far, and she said no. Then I said,in that case walking is good for you and baby, so please walk more! These questions are valid concerns and I’...
Women are seen as especially ensnared within the cycle of birth, suffering, attachment, and re-birth, thus: “Celibate practice implies the shedding of femininity, which consequently allows the nun to transcend both the notion of female sexuality permeating Buddhist texts and the limitations ...
the opening panel of the House hearing on the birth control coverage requirement — and not a single woman. In fact, they turned away a young woman from Georgetown University who had been invited by Democrats on the committee to testify about the role birth control plays in women’s health....
She’s back on the tennis court for the first time since giving birth, hitting groundstrokes with her training partner, Jarmere Jenkins, to “see if I still got it” or if “I need to find another career.” Her doctors have cleared her for some light running and hitting, but nothing ...
giving. Mi-ja’s and my bodies showed our age too. We were fifteen years old, but the harshness of our environment—little food, hard physical work, and cold weather—meant that we were as skinny as eels, our breasts had not yet begun to grow, and just a few wisps of hair showed ...
an ewe and her brand new baby lamb just moments after birth “First time sheep owners should seek out information from current breeders to help find the right breed for them. Different breeds require different housing, grooming, and feeding routines. No two breeds are exactly the same. If ...
In the scene where he is as close to giving birth to a full-grown man, he seems to display sexual arousal when his creation comes to life. Henry Frankenstein provokes nature and defies his heterosexuality. As Whale was an openly gay director in Hollywood, it can be pondered whether he ...
I’m now rounding the corner into the third trimester. After The Scare it’s been an uncomplicated pregnancy, a blessedly boring pregnancy. I am starting to look, in my husband’s words, “like I am made of circles.” We are interviewing pediatricians. We are writing a “birth plan.”...