My Story: Patient Greeting I’ve been in New York and volunteering with Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic for months now, but I first started volunteering at Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri about a month before Roe v. Wade was overturned. The work between the two states…

I came out to my mom as Queer in October of 2021, two days after National Coming Out Day, and a month into my sophomore year of high school. My coming out happened to coincide with the beginning of my school’s mandatory health class, so I entered the classroom each…

When I was only thirteen years old, I had a crush on a boy at my summer camp, and I somehow mustered up the courage to tell him how I felt. He told me he couldn’t date me, and in his reasoning, he used a word that I had never…

In my culture, a woman’s maturity is normally determined by two events, her period or her 15th birthday. Unfortunately, the process of becoming a woman was not an act of either of these two events, it was the first time I covered up a monumental secret. With less than 6…

En mi cultura, la madurez de la mujer es descrita normalmente por dos eventos, la regla o cumplir 15 años. Pero desafortunadamente, la procesión de llegar a ser mujer no fue acto de ninguno de estos dos eventos, fue la primera vez que encubrí un secreto monumental. Con menos de…

Part IV of Some Realities of Birth Control: A Series “A few months ago I wrote A Breakdown of Birth Control: a piece entailing facts, statistics, and recommendations regarding various forms of birth control. However, while there is substantial evidence backing all that data, ultimately each form of birth control…

Part III of Some Realities of Birth Control: A Series “A few months ago I wrote A Breakdown of Birth Control: a piece entailing facts, statistics, and recommendations regarding various forms of birth control. However, while there is substantial evidence backing all that data, ultimately each form of birth control…

Part II of Some Realities of Birth Control: A Series “A few months ago I wrote A Breakdown of Birth Control: a piece entailing facts, statistics, and recommendations regarding various forms of birth control. However, while there is substantial evidence backing all that data, ultimately each form of birth control…

Part I of Some Realities of Birth Control: A Series “A few months ago, I wrote A Breakdown of Birth Control: a piece entailing facts, statistics, and recommendations regarding various forms of birth control. However, while there is substantial evidence backing all that data, ultimately each form of birth control…