A fever is usually considered when you have a body temperature higher than 38 degrees Celsius. This is measurable, widely accepted, and easy to understand. Unfortunately for me growing up,...| Brook
There is a crisis of information surrounding the female body. Poor sex education during childhood and adolescence keeps us in the dark about our anatomy, hormones and sexual health. Fashion, beauty and social media skew our idea of what our bodies “ought” to look like. There is no wonder women and those assigned female at […] The post Dear Period Tracking Apps: Stop Paywalling Our Cycles first appeared on The Badger.| The Badger
In the past three years, my periods have been off-the-charts painful. I’m talking “screaming in pain,” “feeling like I’m being stabbed as blood flows like in The Shining lift scene” painful, to the point where my periods were affecting my day-to-day life in the premenstrual and menstrual phase. So, with very little help from the […] The post Unf**king my painful periods appeared first on Blogger On Pole.| Blogger On Pole
How that simple dot at the end of the sentence became something you use to tell people you're mad. Right. Now.| The New Republic