Watsemba Miriam, a documentary photojournalist, visited two schools in the Bududa district of Uganda to find out how school girls deal with their monthly periods.
- Watsemba Miriam
I mistakenly saw my child as being a vessel by which to heal me, but this is where I was wrong. She was not my vessel to heal, but my stimulus. If I didn’t heal my wounds, then she would have to.
- Cassandra Ashcroft
Som Puri, 39, reflects on her experience going grey and choosing not to colour and the societal perceptions around letting yourself go.
- Som Puri
From ethical non-monogamy to body positivity and dating with a disability, sexologist Chantelle Otten and Lucille McCart say nothing is off limits.
- Alicia Vrajlal
I have carried the weight of these stories with me for my whole life, because I wasn’t brave enough to speak out—and because I didn’t want to accept it. But we can’t heal what we don’t talk about.
- Zoe Simmons
The changes will be particularly helpful for women living with conditions including epilepsy, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, inflammatory bowel diseases and more.
- Hannah Diviney
In the coastal villages of Odisha, in eastern India, women do not work on betel vineyards due to an age-old menstruation taboo. But some women are rebelling. What does it take to fight against the society?
- Romita Saluja
As artists like Taylor Swift, Stormzy and Fred Again grace our shores, psychologist and Flow State Space founder Rashida Dungarwalla reflects on one of her core passions: the psychology of music.
- Rashida Dungarwalla
Would you be able to cope with having the energy for sex only five days a month?
- Simran Pasricha
I’d often try to stay out of the sun, with the conscious intention of ‘not getting darker’. It’s taken years of unlearning this.
- Alicia Vrajlal