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We Will Protect Each Other: A Queer Feelings Atrium After the Fall of Roe

I don’t have more eloquent words at the moment. One thing I know for certain, we will protect each other. We’re here for each other.

KaeLyn —

Jun 24, 2022

reproductive health

Picture of pro-abortion activists holding signs outside the Supreme Court in Washington D.C.

politics + activism

The Fall of Roe Is For All Of Us

There’s a lot of confusion going around about what this all means and as someone who worked in repro and/or civil liberties work for over fifteen years, I’m here to…

KaeLyn —

May 5, 2022

reproductive health

texas

Lil Nas X in bridal wear, with a white robe, a white flower crown and bouquet, and a pregnant belly.

politics + activism

Anti-Blackness and Bioessentialism Won’t Give Us Abortion Rights

On Lil Nas X, fake pregnancy, and projections on social media.

KB Brookins —

Oct 15, 2021

reproductive health

image shows IUD on a background of Yellow, Pink and Blue.

health

Out with the Old: One Black Femme’s Struggle to Remove Their IUD

“While the gyno tried to wiggle out the device, she seemed to forget I was even in the room. It was just her and my uterus, locked in a battle…

Simone Person —

Sep 13, 2021

family

reproductive health

A photo of a brown-skinned pregnant person seated on a sofa with one hand cradling their belly while a person in a white lab coat, also brown-skinned, holds a stethoscope over their belly.

health

NY Needs More Midwives: Here’s How You Can Help

The violence against Black and Indigenous birthing people is intergenerational violence and trauma happening in real time, in each birth. Healing it – by making midwifery more accessible for more…

Christina Tesoro —

Jun 9, 2021

lesbian health

reproductive health

A light-skinned person wearing sleep shorts and an oversized t-shirt sits on the edge of a bed, hands clasped over their crotch protectively. They might have vaginismus?

love + sex

Is Vaginismus Making Penetration Painful? Here’s What It Is and How to Treat It

Vaginismus can get in the way of essential practices and pleasurable activities, like penetrative sex, penetrative masturbation, inserting tampons or menstrual cups and receiving pelvic exams. But with the right…

Ro White —

Apr 2, 2021

joe biden

reproductive health

A close up photo portrait taken from the side of a woman with a serious expression on her face raising a megaphone to her mouth, with a pink Planned Parenthood sticker on it that reads WE WON'T GO BACK.

politics + activism

How 2021 (and the Biden/Harris Administration) Could Mark a Turning Point for Reproductive Rights

As early as this month, the US could turn over a new leaf for reproductive rights with the inauguration of the Biden-Harris administration, following a Trump era defined by an…

Kylie Cheung —

Jan 18, 2021

mutual aid

reproductive health

A woman with a serious expression holds a megaphone to her mouth with a sticker on it that reads WE WON'T GO BACK; behind her, a blurred crowd like a protest or audience is suggested.

news

Worried Your Vote Can’t Protect Reproductive Rights? Mutual Aid Can (and Does)

Many of the crises we’re being warned about with this new 6-3 conservative Supreme Court majority, including people not being able to have abortions, already exist — and so do…

Kylie Cheung —

Nov 4, 2020

2020 election

Autostraddle Reader Data

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news

AS Politics Survey: LGBTQ Health Care & Amy Coney Barrett’s Impacts

Amy Coney Barrett’s political views and her stances on several health care issues are going to inflict a lot of harm on many people. We looked at how important these…

himani —

Oct 16, 2020

extra extra

reproductive health

A range of pro-choice protest signs, the central one reading KEEP ABORTION LEGAL

news

Extra! Extra!: What Would Happen If We Did Lose Roe v. Wade? Let’s Talk About It

This week’s Extra! Extra! turns to other areas of the news. Not because RBG’s death and the verdict on Breonna Taylor’s murder aren’t important. But because sometimes things are so…

the team —

Sep 25, 2020

gay families

parenthood