Catch up on the latest health legislation, honest discussions about our bodies, and “I Have” essays from women’s personal experiences. Whether mental or physical The Frisky discusses each disease, concern, or condition to encourage open conversation.
Wouldn’t you like to know them? Well, who wouldn’t like to know the secret to forever looking young, and be fully energized, about to take over the world? They always seem to spring back right into action whatever happened to them. A sports injury? Before you know it, they’re back on field, while it would’ve […]
Behold, the best thing maybe ever on the internet! Crossfitter Khan Porter re-posted a video of himself doing a choreographed snatch to Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” after seeing Channing Tatum dress in drag to perform “Run the World” on Lip Sync Battle. It went viral, so he used the opportunity to talk about masculinity, too: “I […]
Every woman goes through this sooner or later. The first, and the most important thing, is to not panic. However, that is much easier said than done. Nicole Jardim explains what to do if your period is late. If you know for sure that you aren’t pregnant, you need to look back at that month […]
“The Butterfly Effect” is a sci-fi thriller starring Ashton Kutcher, yes. But it’s also the phrase used to describe the relief one feels when she knows her underwear are protected from skid marks. As advertised in a recent issue of Martha Stewart Living, Butterfly body liners (or poopliners, as I prefer to call them) are […]
Greetings from zombie-land. That’s where I’m currently residing as I go through antidepressant withdrawal. It’s a horribly dizzying place, filled with bouts of insomnia, nausea and an episode of neverending flu. It’s not a place I recommend visiting, and yet, I’ve found myself here because I decided to get off of Paxil, the anti-anxiety drug […]
The moment that changed my life was actually pretty anticlimactic. I took a pregnancy test. Waited the prescribed amount of time. Looked at the result. Threw the test away without really looking at it. I knew I wasn’t pregnant. I had gotten the Mirena IUD over the summer –- the single most effective form of […]
Bacterial vaginosis, also known as BV, isn’t the most pleasant of subjects in polite company, but it’s something that every woman needs to know about. Not only is it the most frequent cause of vaginal infections, it’s also common during pregnancy and can cause problems as serious as miscarriage, pre-term labor, ectopic pregnancies, serious uterine […]
Gwyneth Paltrow was tapped by Mario Batali to do the #FoodBankNYCChallenge and eat on $29 a week. She tweeted a picture of her groceries: This is what $29 gets you at the grocery store—what families on SNAP (i.e. food stamps) have to live on for a week. pic.twitter.com/OZMPA3nxij — Gwyneth Paltrow (@GwynethPaltrow) April 9, 2015 […]
Like all symbols of feminism, marijuana (which, mind you, is totally and completely related to feminism), remains buried in stigma. Since the 1970s launch of the War on Drugs as an unsubtle attack on African-American communities and, in the exact words of a top Nixon aide, “the anti-war left,” users of the drug have been […]
