by admin | Feb 24, 2021 | Featured, Health
New Zealand is unquestionably a first-world country, similar in income and GDP to the United States. Despite this, education officials estimate that one in twelve students miss school occasionally due to lack of access to period products. “I would see so many young...
by admin | Sep 10, 2020 | Bisexuality, Education, Featured, Gay and Lesbian, Health, International, Intersex, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, News, Politics, Queer Community, Sexuality, Transgender
“Today’s children and young people are growing up in an increasingly complex world and living their lives seamlessly on and offline. This presents many positive and exciting opportunities, but also challenges and risks. In this environment, children and young people...
by admin | May 13, 2020 | Articles, Gender, Health, Human Rights, International
(CONTENT WARNING: Contains brief but explicit description of violence done to young girls.) Sudan has seen a lot of changes in the very recent past, after massive violent protests led to a coup, a democratic transition, the ousting of the former self-appointed...
by admin | Dec 15, 2016 | Equality, Featured, Health
A recent study using rhesus monkeys has proven that those at the bottom of the social hierarchy suffer additional stress that translates to their immune systems functioning differently than higher-ranking members of the same group. When introduced to pathogens,...
by admin | Oct 13, 2016 | Featured, Health
This year, both Mississippi and Tennessee passed laws making it explicitly legal for medical health care providers (doctors, psychologists, counselors) to refuse to take on any procedure or patient if doing so would “compromise their conscience.” A...
by admin | Oct 22, 2015 | Health, News, Science
Tuck C. Ngun, PhD, is a post-doctorate researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the first author on a paper entitled “A novel predictive model of sexual orientation using epigenetic markers.” So what does that...
