Know Your Girls is committed to educating Black women about breast cancer. As part of their campaign to educate and inform Black women about their cancer risks, they connected TheGrio with Nikia Hammonds-Blakely, a survivor who was diagnosed at 16 years old. “I was in the shower one morning getting ready for school and I felt the… Read More »
Performing hot and pleasurable oral sex on someone with a vagina can seem a bit daunting. I mean, even if you are the owner of a vulva yourself, every body is different. And what feels good for you, might not also be great for someone else. But, according to this recent Reddit thread, there’s a… Read More »
Women are being ‘let down’ by research on cannabis ‘because scientists only care about the drug’s effects on men’ Experts reviewed years of scientific literature behind cannabis and psychosis They claimed ‘we are still not in a position to say the drug causes the condition’ And the pair of researchers uncovered a ‘gender bias’ throughout… Read More »
Years ago I was involved in the first research on the pill. It was an exciting time at the forefront of women’s lib, as it was called then, and the fight for a woman’s right to decide what happened to her body and when. Early on we focused on the reliability of the pill and… Read More »
Because even small amounts of fetal exposure to alcohol have been associated with a constellation of adverse effects, women who are pregnant are counselled to avoid all consumption of alcohol. Women who are pregnant or planning to conceive are highly motivated and often make fairly significant changes in their health behaviors; however, we have seen… Read More »