Tag: gender
Dobbs Will Have Dire Consequences for Pregnant People Who Use Drugs
Last month’s Supreme Court decision to strike down Roe v. Wade denied people who ...
Mexico’s Abortion Collectives Increase Cross-Border Collaborations
When Perla Martínez took misoprostol to terminate her pregnancy in April of 2017, the ...
No, My Prescribed Opioid Use Was Not a “Relapse”
Society tends to view banned drugs and their use in binary terms. People who ...
Pressure on Massachusetts to Ban Building of New Jails and Prisons
Families of incarcerated people are pressuring Massachusetts state lawmakers to pass a bill to ...
Women’s Voices Among Those Absent at the Global Tobacco Control COP
Global tobacco control is deeply political, divisive, and reflects the prevailing gendered and other ...
NY Ends “Walking While Trans” Ban Targeting Women of Color
Transgender and criminal justice reform activists won a major victory as New York Governor ...
I Switched From Vaping Back to Smoking, Thanks to India’s Government
I remember fumbling with the lighter so much that a friend had to light ...
The Price of Silence: Women, Tobacco and Clinical Gaps in India
As I wait to interview respiratory physicians in a high-end private medical clinic in ...
My Daughter’s Birth Exposed the Medical Community’s Anti-Drug Stigma
In January, a few weeks after my 49th birthday, my partner, Carolyn, gave me ...
Māori Women Benefit From a Harm Reduction Approach to Smoking
Smoking rates among Indigenous peoples have remained stubbornly high around the world, despite stigmatizing ...
