Daring Adventures

“When Evan told me he was transgender, I felt scared and alone. I still feel scared, but I don't feel alone anymore.” This is what my dear friend Rachel told me casually on a walk recently as I asked how she opens up the discussion about her newly released book, Daring Adventures, Helping Gender-Diverse Kids and Their Families Thrive.

Personal Perspectives

It Takes a Village: Motherhood During Unprecedented Times

Becoming a mom is a transformative experience (in both good and challenging ways), and all of it is trial by fire. The saving grace of it all, though, has been that we’re not alone. We have our “village” to lean on: our fellow Burness parents, our local moms' groups, our friends who’ve already had kids and our own parents. And that village is an extra comfort right now as we navigate trying to raise our babies during a pandemic (with vaccines for our babies only recently approved), historic inflation, a climate crisis, a national formula shortage, attacks on reproductive rights and more.

Personal Perspectives

Imagining Reproductive Health Care Access in a Post-Roe World

A disturbing subtext to the Texas abortion ban, its copycats, and the end of Roe, is that wealthy women will always be able to travel anywhere they need to obtain reproductive health care. Women with low incomes and incarcerated women will not.

Insights

We Were Lucky Enough to Have Prenatal Care that Saved Our Lives. It Shouldn’t Be About Luck.

The problem is that maternal health care is inequitable. For most, whether you and your child live or die during the birthing process is not about need, or about your right to good health, but about who you are, where you come from and how much money you make.

Personal Perspectives

“Are you all planning to have kids?”

Isn’t deciding to birth and raise a child the most fundamental reproductive and life-changing choice we can ever make? Why don’t we encourage girls, starting at a young age, to explore different life paths, and not assume that one day they will or will want to become mothers — and normalize the choice not to do so?

Digitizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

The pandemic has acted as a catalyst to modify the way sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is handled globally. Digital health interventions, for example, could allow more people access to SRHR information, including among underserved populations.

Gender and Sexual Reproductive Health

Daring Adventures

It Takes a Village: Motherhood During Unprecedented Times

Imagining Reproductive Health Care Access in a Post-Roe World

We Were Lucky Enough to Have Prenatal Care that Saved Our Lives. It Shouldn’t Be About Luck.

“Are you all planning to have kids?”

Digitizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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