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Biden Administration Brings Back Obama-era Policies, Bans Discrimination Against LGBTQ+ Community in Healthcare
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(Feminism)
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On Monday, the Biden administration banned sex discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community in healthcare, according to The Guardian. This decision reverses the Trump administration’s narrowing of the ...
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Created on 13 May 2021
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Here's How You Can Help India Amid The Country's Devastating COVID-19 Cris
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(Feminism)
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... are overflowing, PBS reports. Healthcare workers are overwhelmed, trying to treat as many people as they can while the number of cases continue to rise.
Businesses, organizations, and people are coming ...
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Created on 05 May 2021
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The COVID-19 Vaccine and Irregular Periods: Is there a Connection?
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(Living)
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... Pain Matters: The Implicit Gender Bias in Healthcare
Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Control
COVID-19 Has Made Access To Reproductive Healthcare Evasive, As If Gettin ...
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Created on 29 April 2021
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Women’s Pain Matters: The Implicit Gender Bias in Healthcare
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(Living)
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A new study has shown that people underestimate the pain women are in. Both men and women believe women exaggerate the pain they are in and are likely to dismiss it.
According to a study written ...
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Created on 15 April 2021
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Johnson & Johnson Shot Pause Shocking Americans, but What Does it Mean for Vaccine Rollout and for Those who Already got the Vaccine?
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(General)
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... healthcare provider.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is less temperamental temperature-wise than its COVID-19 vaccine counterparts, and its single-dose inoculation has been preferable with communities ...
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Created on 13 April 2021
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Join Artivist Dani Slocki As She Showcases Her Annual Fundraiser Dedicated to Brooklyn Creatives
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(Arts)
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... SLOWKEY states, “To lose these ARTivists we'd lose the vibrancy of our great city. If the government won’t cancel rent, provide healthcare, or increase minimum wages, we have to take care of our neighbors ...
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Created on 24 March 2021
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Self-Advocacy Might Have Saved Influencer Grace F. Victory's Life From A System Working Against He
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(Entertainment)
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... while dealing with biased and neglectful medical staff. The NHS, as well as other national healthcare systems, need to radically address the disparities in the treatment of expecting parents so that more ...
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Created on 18 March 2021
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Looking At The Groundbreaking "Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians," Decades Later: BUST Intervie
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(Books)
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... on his birth certificate, which is something that blows my mind. We were treated respectfully in the healthcare systems, and yet that gives me a great amount of survivor's guilt. I don't know what to do ...
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Created on 12 March 2021
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Roe v. Wade Doesn't Actually Make Abortion Accessible For Everyone. This Short Film Explains Why
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(Movies)
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What is the Hyde Amendment and why is it such an obstruction to reproductive justice?
Hyde impacts nearly 29 million people of reproductive age by preventing government funds from being used to cover ...
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Created on 03 March 2021
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COVID-19 Has Made Access To Reproductive Healthcare Evasive, As If Getting An Abortion Wasn't Already Hard Enough in Americ
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(Living)
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... pandemic has ravaged the American (and foreign) healthcare systems, other health issues have taken a backseat in the public consciousness. Providing the best possible care for those suffering from COVID-19 ...
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Created on 23 February 2021
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Biden Re-Entered The United States Into The Paris Climate Agreement On His First Day Of Office, What Next?
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(Living)
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... check (actually, they’re in need of a lot more). Could we perhaps start the ball rolling on universal healthcare, or at least start amending the ACA to make healthcare more accessible? Oh yeah, can we ...
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Created on 21 January 2021
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How To Make Your Own Go Bag, In Case of Emergency
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(Living)
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... PPE, we should continue to save the most heavy-duty masks, including N95 particulate masks, for healthcare workers and vulnerable folks. As COVID-19 eventually declines (please, Gods), we hope more protective ...
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Created on 21 January 2021
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Joe Biden Appoints Dr. Rachel Levine As Assistant Health Secretary, A Historical First For The Transgender Community
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(Feminism)
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... Levine is informed and can make progress in the state of American healthcare.
Header Image via Wikimedia Commons.
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The Biden-Harris Administration Makes History By Appointing An All-Female ...
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Created on 19 January 2021
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Comedian Catherine Cohen Wants You To Feel Less Alone: BUST Interview
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(Arts)
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... who often face discriminatory barriers when it comes to getting the healthcare they need.
Can you speak about the importance of being so open about your experiences?
It’s very therapeutic for me. I ...
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Created on 30 November 2020
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Deb Haaland Might Become The First-Ever Native Cabinet Member
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(General)
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... education, healthcare equality, and land preservation.
Top photo: Deb Haaland, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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New Mexico Makes History, Electing All Women Of Color In Its House Delegation ...
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Created on 19 November 2020
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What Louisiana's New Abortion Restrictions Mean For America ...
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(Feminism)
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... action is positioned to make it even harder to obtain reproductive healthcare in the future if Roe is reversed.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research center that supports reproductive freedom, ...
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Created on 06 November 2020
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New Mexico Makes History, Electing All Women Of Color In Its House Delegation
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(Feminism)
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... equality, healthcare and economic justice. Thank you New Mexico!
A post shared by Deb Haaland (@deb4congressnm) on Nov 3, 2020 at 6:55pm PST
Leger Fernandez, the first women to serve New Mexico’s ...
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Created on 05 November 2020
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Here's How Georgia's Stacey Abrams Saved America: Exclusive BUST Intervi
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(Feminism)
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... Economic Advancement Project. Because what Kemp explicitly denied was healthcare to Black and brown and poor people in Georgia. He explicitly denied us any action to address climate change which is ravaging ...
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Created on 05 November 2020
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It’s Time For ‘Hot Nerd Fall:’ Megan Thee Stallion Launches A Scholarship for Women Of Color
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(Music)
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... morning, the website was back up and running.
Megan is currently a senior in the healthcare administration program at Texas Southern University. Throughout her career, she has continued her studies ...
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Created on 12 October 2020
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2020 Sees Highest Rates of Fatal Violence Against the Trans Community in Years
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(Feminism)
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The Human Rights Campaign highlights that a mix of racism, sexism, homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia deprive trans people of employment, housing, healthcare, and other necessities, and unfairly, ...
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Created on 07 October 2020
