ASK AYA: Fierce, Feminist Parenting Advice–On THE SEX TALK
January 16th, 2018 | by Aya de Leon
This week, we’re starting a new advice column—from the one/only AYA DE LEON! HEY AYA: What did you do when
Browsing the "Body" Category
Seven Days in the Stinking Marsh
December 9th, 2017 | by Cheryl Klein
In the swampy, stinking waters of the river Styx – the actively wrathful fight each other viciously on the surface
TRIGGER SEASON
November 28th, 2017 | by Ezra Stone
For me certain smells: my grandmother’s claustrophobic perfume on a stranger, usually an older woman who also smokes; Calvin Klein
Loose Lips: On Telling
November 21st, 2017 | by Rebecca Fish Ewan
What precisely is the statute of limitations on childhood sexual assault? “It was forty years ago.” No, for me it
“We Might Never Know Why” — Comics from THE FACTS OF LIFE
October 24th, 2017 | by Paula Knight
Excerpted from The Facts of Life, newly published by Penn State University Press in the Graphic Medicine series. “With humor,
The Enormity of the Everydayness
September 20th, 2017 | by Sophia Wiedeman Glock
Still waiting to tip over the precipice and finally meet her
TUESDAY
September 15th, 2017 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
I woke up happy with the weight of work that’d been on me for the last month lifted for no
WE DOUBLED DOWN: On Two Moms Making a Baby with IVF
May 1st, 2017 | by Cara Gormally
Making this comic was, in some ways, healing. The first part of my pregnancy felt so tenuous. I was grateful
“Don’t Be a Fast Girl” — How Hitting Your Daughter Can Trigger Early Puberty
April 3rd, 2017 | by Dr. Stacey Patton
I wrote my book, Spare the Kids, because I am a child abuse survivor and former foster youth who wants
DIAGNOSIS: On Sickness and Our Country
March 7th, 2017 | by Tara Dorabji
My mom was diagnosed with cancer the same week that Trump was elected president. On the morning after the election