the cost of a script
For Anti-Poverty Week: what happens to your health when money is tight, and the cheaper options nobody mentions at the counter.
the girl in the waiting room
For International Day of the Girl: who gets to speak in her appointment, and how to ask for time alone with the doctor.
the green card in your wallet: getting your own medicare card at 15
Nobody tells you that one of the most useful health tools you can own becomes available in Year 9 or 10.
“Dear 14-Year-Old Me…”
On learning the language for your body before the world convinces you to stay quiet.
living in limbo: school, friends, wellbeing, identity, and discovery.
There is a particular stage of life that rarely receives a clear name.
shame: the 10th “inside out” emotion.
In Pixar’s Inside Out, emotions are personified as bright, expressive characters living inside the mind. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust shape how the main character exper
the pressure to be “strong”
Strength is one of those words that sounds unquestionably good.
“the teacher said no”
how classrooms become the first place girls learn their bodies are “too much.”
the myth of the “dramatic girl”
a heck of a title slapped onto girls for simply feeling
