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birth control

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This Frozen Life

  • Susan V. Meyers
  • March 22, 2021
As soon as life begins, its impulse is to divide.
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Hybrid by Nature: A Conversation with Tara Campbell

  • Hannah Grieco
  • July 29, 2020
Tara Campbell discusses her new book, POLITICAL AF: A RAGE COLLECTION.
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A Political Pregnancy

  • Jennifer Case
  • January 28, 2020
Are my choices in this culture so firmly dictated by my ability to give birth?
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What I’ll Tell My Children: On Being ‘F***Able’ under the Regime of President-elect

  • Jenessa Abrams
  • December 7, 2016
It’s time to take responsibility for compliancy.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Night

  • Theo Pauline Nestor
  • September 3, 2016
With these young women, I no longer slip in and out of places undetected. With them, my cloak of invisibility—my only known superpower—has been removed.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Vanessa Blakeslee

  • Sarah Corbett Morgan
  • December 13, 2015
I don’t want to waste readers’ time with a several hundred-page novel that’s not relevant to the wicked problems we’re facing today.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

  • P.E. Garcia
  • July 8, 2015
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) What happened when Colorado gave out free birth control: exactly what you’d…
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Another Look at Hormonal Birth Control

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • July 30, 2013
Is it possible to write a feminist critique of birth control? Holly Grigg-Spall tries to do so in her new book Sweetening the Pill, but according to our editorial assistant…
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FUNNY WOMEN #104: Providing Birth Control to American Girl Dolls

  • Carolyn Parkhurst
  • July 16, 2013
At American Girl®, our celebration of girls doesn’t end at puberty--and now neither does our product line!
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This Week in Calculators

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • February 22, 2012
Mother Jones has created a handy contraception cost calculator for the pregnancy-preventing fertile folks. It’s also highly suitable for any curious cats or interactive-feature enthusiasts.
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Enter Culture War, Stage Far Right

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • February 10, 2012
Yesterday, while we were incapacitated, a bunch of dudes in Washington and around the media started debating something called contraception, as if hearing about it for the very first time.…
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