For the first time, a whole nation of women are being triggered at once, and they’re not afraid to speak — Pick a woman in your life. Any woman. Odds are, if you look at her right now, you’ll see it in her face: the brittleness. The weary rage. The way the laughter coming out of her mouth never quite makes it to her eyes. …

”I want to live that more simple life.” — South Ogden, Utah Medium: How big is South Ogden, Utah? Mati Spangenburg: Not very big. Probably like 50? Did you grow up there? I did. I’ve always lived around this area. You’re in high school, but you’re also at trade school program, studying to be a medical assistant. Why did you decide to do that? My mom was a medical assistant, and I always wanted to go into the medical field, but I’m not the biggest fan of school, so I wanted to do something where…

“We walk into school every day feeling very uncomfortable.” — Boston, Massachusetts Medium: You live in Boston. Where do you go to school? Kiara Ace: I go to school in Weston [an affluent Massachusetts suburb]. Which is quite a distance away, isn’t it? Yep. About an hour drive. What’s Weston like? It’s a pretty white, suburban neighborhood, isn’t it? Yeah. It’s been tough going to school over there, just because as we got older, more things in the world have been happening. Some people are just really clueless, because most…

“I try to suppress emotion and just try to focus on the day-to-day.” — Bloomington, Indiana Medium: Are you a writer or an editor for your school paper? Jennifer Crystal: I’m an editor. This is my second year on staff at the Optimist. I was a staff writer last year, and this is my first year as editor. What kind of stories have you written? I’ve written a lot of opinion and satire pieces and a couple of news pieces. I wrote a…

“Being a teen mom is stigmatized. But having an abortion is even worse.” — Dallas, Texas Medium: Are abortion laws in Texas more restrictive than some other states? “Lucy”: It is very restrictive. I’ll give you a long rundown of what I had to go through. Basically, before I even had any problems with anything, I went to get birth control at a local Planned Parenthood, and they refused me because I was a minor and…

Forget Silicon Valley biotech wonderdrugs. Leading gerontologists are making a historic bet on metformin. — Old age is, we know, a gauntlet of chronic illness that almost no one gets through without some deep unpleasantness. Most people who reach the upper end of the average human lifespan begin, at some point, to accumulate diseases. For the most lethal maladies of the elderly — heart disease…