Abortion rights aren’t enough. The best reproductive care outcomes result from meeting basic needs.
Body Politics
What Frogs Teach Us About Queerphobia in Science
Critical Toxicity Studies calls for the scientifically rigorous study of toxicants that handles all bodies and identities with care.
Safe Havens for Trans Migrants on the U.S.-Mexico Border
As asylum options dwindle in the U.S., Mexico is strengthening paths to citizenship for trans migrants.
A Beautifully “Wicked” Approach to Disability
Despite being pitied for the color of their skin or wheelchair use, the film’s characters don’t let society define them—or their power.
The Queer Organizations Protecting and Supporting Trans People
As more than 500 anti-trans bills circulate in the U.S., grassroots orgs are helping weather the storm and curb the harm.
A Feminism for the Many
It’s time to ditch the many forms of feminism that bolster oppressive systems.
Insulin Should Be a Right, Not a Privilege
Trump is attacking the policies aimed at making prescription medications affordable and accessible to all.
Organizers Brace for Resurrection of “Zombie” Abortion Laws
Despite conservative efforts to criminalize medication abortion using the 1873 Comstock Act, organizers continue to expand access to this necessary health care.
Rare-Disease Patients Know: We All Deserve Better Care
Often forced to become experts on their own treatment, rare-disease patients are modeling the collective care and mutual aid networks that can help ensure everyone's long-term survival.
Unlearning Queerphobia
Schools are a powerful place to begin building an LGBTQ-affirming culture, as an antidote to fear and bigotry.
A Liberatory Vision for Reproductive Justice
A progressive alternative to Project 2025's anti-abortion vision includes no-cost abortions, on-demand, for everyone who wants one.
A Progress 2025 Vision for Health Care
Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here's what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like.
Progress 2025: A Vision for LGBTQ Rights
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has promised a dystopian vision for LGBTQ rights. Its ideas are consistent with authoritarian, Christian nationalist, and white supremacist objectives. It aims to criminalize the existence
From The Current Issue
Serving Justice
On stage and in the courthouse, these queens prove drag is not a crime.
Protecting Black Pregnant People’s Health—and Data
Birth workers serving Black pregnant people maintain the holistic methods—and data privacy—that distinguish doula care from the medical-industrial complex.
How Black Women Can Protect Their Peace This Election Cycle
In the months prior to Vice President Kamala Harris’ nomination to the Democratic presidential ticket, I felt a lingering fear in my body about what it would mean for Black
Punjabi Californians Find a Lifeline Through Community Health Workers
Facing a health care system without sufficient translation services and a grueling economic landscape, Punjabi residents in Fresno, California, have created an organization to help meet their community’s unique needs.
We Don’t Need Misogynoir to Critique Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris can and should be critiqued for her political résumé—but criticism rooted in misogynoir should have no place in political discourse.
What’s in a Name? For Abortion Providers, Quite a Bit.
Even before abortion became illegal in 14 states, some reproductive health care clinics were rebranding to better reflect the broad spectrum of gender-inclusive care they provide.
Meet the Couples Upending India’s Caste-Based Marriages
In stark contrast to the billionaire Ambanis’ wedding, some Indians are subverting patriarchy, caste, and class in their ceremonies.
Courage By Any Other Name
In times of trouble, cowards choose the easiest path. It is only the courageous—and almost always those who are most marginalized—who dare to say and do the hard, but right, thing.
AI Can’t Fix Our Broken Health Care System, But People Can
AI is trained on data from our health care system as it exists, which means the data is contaminated by racial, economic, and regional disparities. But there are solutions.
Women on Deck: Skateboarding’s Untold Gender-Inclusive History
As skateboarding becomes an Olympic event, “Drop In” chronicles the women, nonbinary, and queer skaters who have made the sport more equitable.
Druze Women Balance Sexual Health, Pleasure, and Tradition
Sex education is often taboo in close-knit Druze communities, but a new generation is creating its own care networks.
Rejecting Shame to Reclaim the Power of the Period
Advocates are working to overcome patriarchal structures worldwide that deny menstruating people dignity, access, and agency.
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