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More than a Medal: How Women Transformed the Winter Olympics

In one of the most viewed athletic competitions in the world, the 2026 Winter Olympics marked an incredible chapter for the history of women’s sports. Sunday, February 22 marks the end of the winter games. Throughout the past seventeen days, viewers watched a variety of winter sports including snowboarding, skiing, ice hockey, figure skating, and many more! Beyond all the medals and ice surrounding northern […]

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The Invisible Rulebook

From the time we were little girls to now, there has been these impossible standards we are expected to follow. It’s like we were handed this invisible rulebook about how we’re supposed to look like. Thin, but curvy. Fit, but not too muscular. Flawless, but natural. And in the end, it doesn’t matter what you […]

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Learning to Advocate for My Own Body in College

Growing up as an only child, I always felt as though I was three steps behind everyone else. While my classmates had started “dating” in 5th grade, I still didn’t fully understand the concept of what a boyfriend was. In middle school, when the boys in my class were joking about masturbation, I wanted to […]

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How “Synching Up” With My Mom Changed Our Relationship

Cover by Anton Luzhkovsky on Unsplash There is a popular theory that spending enough time around other women will align your menstrual cycles. This anecdote has been passed from mother to daughter over the course of time despite no scientific consensus on its validity. I was about 15 when my mom passed it to me. […]

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5 things i wish i knew before i got my first period

Cover Photo by Ekaterina Novitskaya on Unsplash When I first got my period, I didn’t bathe or shower the entire time because I thought the blood would do something bad to our plumbing. When I first tried to wear a tampon, it popped out at softball practice because I didn’t put it in all the […]

Stop Picking On Pick Me Girls

Have you heard of the term “pick-me girl”? It is defined by Urban Dictionary as “a girl who seeks male validation by indirectly or directly insinuating that she is ‘not like the other girls’”. Even if this is the first time you’ve heard the term, chances are you have encountered some pick-me characteristics. Where did […]

why are birth rates in the us declining?

JD Vance has been fixated on the United States having “more babies” long before being sworn in as Vice President. Vance complained in a 2021 interview with Fox News of US democrats being “a bunch of childless cat ladies”. While he has since expressed regret for how he phrased this statement, he has stood by […]

Reclaiming Women’s Health: The Endometriosis Crisis

Endometriosis affects one in ten women of reproductive age worldwide, yet its diagnosis and treatment remain undermined and overlooked. For millions of women, myself included, this chronic and often debilitating condition is so much more more than “just bad period cramps”—it’s an extreme battle with physical and emotional distress, along with systemic medical disregard. This […]

Medical Gaslighting

Earlier this year, I woke up one morning in excruciating abdominal pain. Considering I wasn’t due to get my cycle for another two weeks, menstrual cramps seemed out of the question. All that I could try to do was shrug off the pain, take some ibuprofen, and go about my day. Come two days later […]

Are We Overlooking Something in the 4B Movement?

For 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 […]

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