A lot of women have a digital diary on their phones in the form of their menstrual tracking app. Seriously, it gets all the intimate details of your life: when you masturbated, how often you have sex, moods, your feelings, if you’re trying to have a baby and when your period comes. As women, we […]
Read More Tracking Your Period… Or Tracking You?If my best friend, who is the same age as me, born just two weeks apart, the same major, the same values, and even the same shade of blonde if you want to get specific, goes to school at Auburn in Alabama and needs healthcare, and I need that same healthcare here in Virginia, why […]
Read More Access Should Not Depend on Your Zip CodeFor far too long, women have been told to wait: wait for their rights to be respected, wait for their autonomy to be acknowledged, wait for their voices to be heard. The 4B movement rises from this issue, drawing inspiration from its roots in South Korea, where it came from a want to reject the […]
Read More Are We Overlooking Something in the 4B Movement?I had a conversation with my (now ex) boyfriend about if he would go on birth control if there was one offered for males. Probably catering to my feelings, he said yes. I then mentioned a TikTok I saw earlier that day of an experimental male birth control, but it would have to be inserted […]
Read More Where Is The Male Birth Control??Some people don’t have the maternal instinct, as seen in my friend, who wanted to get her tubes tied at twenty-one. While that is understandably young, it is ultimately her choice. However, the number of hoops she had to jump through to have this procedure was ridiculous. The most absurd part was the mental evaluation, […]
Read More If I Wanted Politic$ In My Vagina, I’d f**k a SenatorIf you know anything about Abortions and what the procedure looks like, it can contain a lot of pain and symptoms that last for days. Some of these symptoms can’t allow women to go about their day normally or anything like that. Throughout the year, many states have attempted to appeal a total abortion ban. […]
Read More Post-Abortion Care“Virginia is the last southern state without restrictions of abortion rights after the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade” Following the General elections on Tuesday November 7, 2023, we saw a massive win for abortion rights in not only Virginia but other states as well. Since the over turn of Roe v. Wade in 2022, […]
Read More Big win for abortion rights in VACo-authored by @blondedblogger and @becomingsoftcalmlove Local Affordable housing Project in Harrisonburg As reported by local news station, WHSV (Oct. 20, 2023), The Central Valley Habitat for Humanity’s Suter Street Project in Harrisonburg, Virginia is in progress, with walls already going up after six weeks of work. Project Manager Tim Godshall says that he is optimistic […]
Read More Newsroom Round-UpHave you ever considered having a child? Millions of people around the world would love the opportunity to one day bear a child of their own. Unfortunately, the idea of having a child seems nearly impossible for many due to numerous expenses that come with children. While there are endless costs to consider such as […]
Read More Childbirth: An Expensive IssueCo-authored by FemmeInAction and ThisGirlLovesCollegeBasketball Local Since the pandemic, millions of dollars in American Can Rescue Plan funds have gone to help stabilize childcare centers across the country but those funds ran out on Saturday, September 30. Like many others, the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Child Day Care Center received COVID relief money, and with that no longer […]
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