Female Health

Some men enforce gender roles by pushing women into cages: Be obedient. Be soft. Be nurturing. Be silent. Other men wear those same gender roles like a costume and declare: …

Nurse Jennifer Melle was doing what few people would want to do: providing care — intimate, necessary, and skillful care — to a male prisoner convicted of child sexual abuse. …

Updated 8/3/25 So the latest update is that Jennifer Melle has been suspended. Extremely disappointing. She was providing care to a male prisoner.  Nurse Melle is a veteran professional who …

We say, “It takes a village.” But more often than not, “the village” means the women. The ones who give their time, their rest, their breath, and their dreams. 💸 …

🍷headed into the fourth of July, right?…….Freedom? Because they’d rather keep us on defensethan dare teach him self-control. Because it’s easier to hand us rulesthan hold him accountable for crimes. …

Every time I swallowed the truth, someone else got fed.Fed with power.Fed with protection.Fed with the benefit of the doubt. But it wasn’t me. 🗣️ Silence Is Not Neutral They …

I need to speak to you plain today. There comes a time in healing when you must take a long, hard look around you and ask:Who benefits from my silence? …

Do you see all this debate over “women’s spaces” and NONE over men’s spaces? There’s a line from a 1976 film that still echoes today: “I’m as mad as hell, …

Some harms don’t happen in isolation. They happen because someone was let in who shouldn’t have been.And then, no one shut the door behind them. In law and policy, this …