Rites of Passage

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Accept the Challenges

VIDEO: Andrea Jordan, a midwife trained in the U.K. and practicing in Barbados, shares her story and encourages women and […]

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Empowerment for All

I first learned about Girls on the Run through a healthy living blog back in 2011 and remember thinking “this […]

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Legacy Lives On

My mother was an incredible influence in my young life. She was my best friend and confidant. I lost her […]

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Simply Because It Is Yours

For the last eight years I’ve been working on HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Mexico […]

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Logro Académico como una Salida

Cuando yo tenía 12 años, nosotros (mi madre y mis dos hermanos y una hermana) nos mudamos desde Colombia a […]

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Destigmatizing Menstruation in Swaziland

I am inspired in the hope of destigmatizing menstruation and be period positive. It was one of the days whereby […]

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Women Working Together

My short term goal was easy. I aimed to be well conditioned and prepared to play baseball respectably at fantasy […]

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You are worthy. You are loved. You are powerful.

My story, of course, like all amazing women, started at birth. I knew from childhood I was different. I saw […]

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A Few Little Words

It was a Saturday morning. I was 16 and had just finished my morning chores and was in my room, […]

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Just being there is enough.

The brother of a dear girlfriend of mine met with an untimely death. He was very close to us in […]