Real Talk With Astronaut Abby: How Women Deal With Their Periods In Space
In 1983, as Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, was preparing for her history-making flight aboard the space shuttle Challenger, engineers as...
Womanhood
No Folding Chair Required… How Women You Should Know Offers Us All A Seat At The Table
By Marie Gardiner - Being a woman in business, being a woman doing something ‘different,’ or heck, sometimes just being a woman, can be a step off a high ledge ...
I Am Relieved That I Will Never Be A Grandmother
By Lori Day - I am the mother of a 26-year-old daughter, my only child. As one of the early IVF pioneers of the late 80’s and early 90’s, I went through many ye...
The 100 Black Females Project: Shayla Hunter Turns Academic Assignment Into Empowering Platform
In April 2018, Shayla Hunter was required to complete a 100 Day Project as part of her graduate degree from the School of Visual Arts. She needed to create some...
What Does It Mean To Say No To Motherhood?
By Therese Shechter - "Do you have kids?" seems like an innocent question, but the answer may be the most taboo topic of a woman’s life. In this third film of m...
That Time Breastfeeding Was “Normalized” On Sesame Street… In 1977
Clearly and sadly, when it comes to breastfeeding, things were a lot more progressive back then. ...
Marisa Jahn and ‘The CareForce One’ Amplifying The Voices Of America’s Caregivers In New Series
CareForce One Travelogues is a film series that features the artist Marisa Morán Jahn, her son, and their friend Anjum Asharia as they travel from NYC to Miami ...
We May Be In Our 70s And Widows, But We Still Have Full Lives… That Includes Sex
I am writing this anonymously, not to protect me, but to protect my friends. You see, we are widows. I never quite understood why this is a unique designation s...
Tracee Ellis Ross On Living Her Life Outside Society’s Expectations Of “Womanhood”
Tracee Ellis Ross is an award-winning actress, entrepreneur and overall badass. But even with huge success, she, like so many of us, is scrutinized for choosing...