Health

From menstruation to fertility and mental health, we combat cultural stigma and taboo, while empowering women to embrace their bodies and minds.

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.
Would you be able to cope with having the energy for sex only five days a month?
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. 
Endometriosis is a brutal, chronic illness affecting 1 in 9 women. Editor and author Gina Rushton explores the power of anger over self-abnegation along the fractured journey to finding adequate treatment options in Australia.
Outside of healthcare, Indian women living with HIV/AIDS continue to fight against bias and routine discrimination. Their healing and hope comes through collective resistance against a society that sees them as impure.
It’s clear that people across the country continue to have unhealthy love of sun tanning – which causes premature ageing, irreparable skin damage, changes to DNA and even death from skin cancer.
Let’s be honest, the typical messaging out there about the holidays on billboards, cards and shopping centre banners may not feel aligned with what your lived experience felt like in reality.
Keeping pregnancies a secret for the first trimester is still considered the social norm, but perhaps it doesn't have to always be this way.
Earlier this year, Melbourne-based journalist Simran Pasricha jumped on the chance to complete her Yoga teacher training in India. She was unnerved to find that the course was predominantly filled with white students, many of whom even grumbled at the need to learn Sanskrit as part of their training. Here, she explores the effects of colonisation on her journey with Yoga.
A new report on the state of women’s fertility awareness has revealed that 4 in 5 women want more education about it.

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