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Balanced: Love & Bipolar Disorder
When you’re living with a stigmatized mental illness like bipolar disorder, opening up to romantic partners can be tough, but Anita brings on two peo…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Life After A Gray Divorce
In Anita's lifetime, the divorce rate for Americans over 55 has doubled. People are living longer, divorce stigma has decreased and women are more fi…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Beyond Bromance: Searching For Deeper Male Friendship
American men are in a friendship recession. Compared to a few decades ago, five times as many men have no close friends. So what’s going on? Anita ta…
11 months ago
A Doctor’s Intuition Lost And Found
Doctors are expected to make high-stakes decisions quickly and often. And while plenty of medical guidelines exist, sometimes finding the right answe…
11 months, 1 week ago
Decades Of ‘Death Cramps’ Later, A Search For Answers To Period Pain
Ever since Kate Downey got her first extremely painful period at age 14, every month feels like playing Russian roulette with her uterus. Will she ge…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Why We Need Trans Tech In 2025
When technology creators see problems … they fix them. No less is true for trans designers, who for decades have responded to emergent needs in their…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Black Women’s Disordered Eating Is Overlooked
Despite a decade of restrictive behavior and a career path in mental health counseling, Alishia McCullough had never associated herself with the phra…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Mixed: Owning Your Multiracial Story
When Anita moved away to college, she experienced a big shift in her biracial identity. Turns out that the questions that emerged for her are ones th…
1 year ago
Forgive, But Don’t Forget: Sexuality & Healing From Religious Trauma
When Celeste Gracia was 17, her religiously conservative parents sent her to conversion therapy. This was the same summer that the Supreme Court lega…
1 year ago
Sexual Liberation for Single Moms
Most parents in Anita's life tell her that it's a relentless job ... so if you're doing it all without a partner, how is it possible to also sustain …
1 year ago