Informed consent in the breast clinic: ‘I felt cornered, and like I didn’t have a say in what was happening’
Anonymous guest post I was called back to my local breast screening centre after a mammogram. The...
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Category: Sexual & Reproductive Health
Lichen Sclerosus: ‘Doctors are supposed to do no harm, but all I see is years of preventable physical and emotional harm’
Anonymous guest post At the tender age of 23, I feel like the long list of possibilities that...
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Vagina Problems: ‘Pain that impacts people with a uterus or vagina is simply not regarded as important’
Q&A with Lara Parker, author of Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo...
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We need to talk about racial inequalities in sexual health and HIV
Guest post by Aisha-Monic Namurach, Health Promotion Specialist at Terrence Higgins Trust This...
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Decolonising Contraception: ‘White supremacy has shaped our understanding of sex and relationships’
Q&A with Gayathiri Kamalakanathan from Decolonising Contraception Gayathiri Kamalakanathan is...
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The Gender Orgasm Gap: ‘How would the doctor have responded to my anorgasmia if I was a cis man?’
Anonymous guest post At 25 years old, I have never had an orgasm, and not for want of trying....
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‘I’m 26, and for six years I haven’t had a sex life’: the birth of Queens of Eve
Guest post by Jillian Currie Back in 2010, no one gave me the heads up that, as soon as I was old...
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The national scandal of barbaric outpatient hysteroscopy
Guest post by Jocelyn Lewis, on behalf of The Campaign Against Painful Hysteroscopy In April 2006,...
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‘Aren’t the days of “doctor knows best” over?’: Why healthcare needs a feminist revolution
Q&A with Jennifer Block, author of Everything Below The Waist: Why Health Care Needs A...
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Overeactomy: ‘He laughed and sent me on my merry way’
Guest post by Gillian Mackenzie My first published blog post was on the subject of the menopause,...
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Trust Women: 10 years on, remembering the legacy of Dr Tiller
Julie Burkhart, CEO of Trust Women, reflects on the legacy of ‘woman-educated doctor’...
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Vagina: A Re-education: ‘I had a really horrible, painful experience, but I blamed myself for being weak’
Q&A with Lynn Enright, author of Vagina: A re-education Published in March 2019, Vagina: A...
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