Tag: Women

Appalachian Women Have Always Been Tougher Than a $2 Steak! | Appalachian Magazine

Rural living , extends the life span of a female .

Stories I have heard, women I have met attest to this truth.

Appalachian Women Have Always Been Tougher Than a $2 Steak! | Appalachian Magazine
— Read on appalachianmagazine.com/2019/03/07/appalachian-women-have-always-been-tougher-than-a-2-steak/

Women are to get the right to check a partner’s background under new domestic violence law | Daily Mail Online

This is very good news .

Prime Minister Theresa May will tomorrow unveil Clare’s Law, which is named after Clare Wood (pictured) from Salford, who was unaware of the violent past of the man who would murder her.
— Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6612653/Women-right-check-partners-background-new-domestic-violence-law.html

Indigenous Doulas Are Reclaiming Birthing Practices Colonization Tried to Erase – Broadly

The ekw’í7tl Indigenous Doula Collective is working to restore age-old customs around pregnancy and childbirth—and reestablish a traditional reverence for women and families in the process.
— Read on broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/7xz98z/indigenous-doulas-are-reclaiming-the-birthing-practices-colonization-destroyed

The Eugenics Movement And Forced Sterilization : NPR

In 1924, a 17-year-old girl was admitted to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. The superintendent of the colony classified her as “feeble-minded of the lowest grade, moron class.” With that designation, this girl, Carrie Buck, was set on a path she didn’t choose. What happened next laid the foundation for the forced sterilization of tens of thousands of people. This week, we revisit a 2018 episode about the eugenics movement and one of the most tragic social experiments in American history.
— Read on www.npr.org/2019/02/17/695574984/emma-carrie-vivian-how-a-family-became-a-test-case-for-forced-sterilizations

How Common is PTSD in Women? – PTSD: National Center for PTSD

Here’s a gov publication that chooses to point out

depression as a ” side effect ” of PTSD ..One reason

my research became expansive , factually and at

least 3 reliable sources , plus my experience and

one on one exchanges.

Learn about trauma and PTSD in women.
— Read on www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/common/common_women.asp

“The Pill” Is Destroying Our Bodies And Everyone Is Ignoring It For Money · Evie Magazine

I could not use them, per Dr

We’ve been told that birth control is one of the great inventions of our time and that we would be foolish not to take it. The truth is, we’ve been lied to.
— Read on www.eviemagazine.com/post/the-pill-is-destroying-our-bodies-and-everyone-is-ignoring-it-for-money/

To the Suicidal Mama Fighting to Stay Alive for Her Kids | The Mighty

A mom writes a letter to her fellow mama’s who struggle with suicidal thoughts, acknowledging the struggle of mental illness and motherhood and reminding them that they are heard and they should stay.
— Read on themighty.com/2017/12/mom-want-to-die-suicidal/