Cash Flow: The Businesses of Menstruation, by UK-based academic Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik, delves into how much we know about the menstrual industry - its surprisingly patriarchal business model, how...
Category: Health
Online data could be used against people seeking abortions
When the draft of a Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press, many of us who have been studying privacy for vulnerable individuals came to a troubling...
Pregnancy termination is a personal choice
The supreme court ruling to overturn Roe vs Wade in the US has sparked enormous global discussion about women’s bodily autonomy and what should be an indisputable right to decided what happens with...
The imperceptible line between life and death
Content notification: This essay discusses grief and medical trauma. When my colleague died walking to work one morning, I passed an unexpected, though probably not universal, sympathy around:...
Research wrap: time poverty, parenting and mental health
BroadAgenda Research Wrap is your monthly window into academia. We scour the journals so you don’t have to. This month’s research wrap comes to you from the covid recovery bed. While the ‘mild to...
A Summer of Hope: Elizabeth’s story
After two long years of the global COVID-19 pandemic, so many of us find ourselves tired and lacking energy for even basic tasks. Facing a new year does not fill us with the joy of possibility as it...
A botched labiaplasty turned Jessica into an activist
Jessica Pin is a US advocate with the goal of comprehensive and equitable coverage of the clitoral anatomy in Obstetrics & Gynaecology (OB/GYN) textbooks. She's regularly interviewed by the...
COVID: how anti-vaccine influencers exploit mothers
Opposition to vaccination has existed for as long as vaccination itself. Ever since widespread smallpox vaccination began in the early 1800s, there have been cycles of questioning the safety and...
Banishing body shame: ‘Ladies, We Need To Talk’
'Ladies, We Need To Talk' (the book) breaks the stigma around everything women are thinking but not saying. Author and presenter Yumi Stynes and health reporter and digital editor Claudine Ryan...