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.
- Gina Rushton
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.
- Jaishree Kumar
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.
- Missing Perspectives
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.
- Rashida Dungarwalla
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.
- Mie Kayser Jensen
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.
- Simran Pasricha
A new report on the state of women’s fertility awareness has revealed that 4 in 5 women want more education about it.
- Alicia Vrajlal
Thinking of women’s healthcare items as a luxury and not a necessity has extended to how we think about women’s healthcare and well-being. Free contraceptive pills are a good start. But there’s a long way to go in the fight for healthcare freedom.
- Rosie MacLeod
Dating app Bumble’s newly-released report of dating trends for 2024 suggests next year "is set to be the year of ‘self’ in dating and relationships, with more people looking inwards at what they value and want." In partnership with Bumble.
- Hannah Diviney