When I got pregnant and became a mother at 15, I experienced an overwhelming onslaught of disrespect and shame from family members, friends, and perfect strangers.
Author: Gloria Malone
Support groups for black moms help close the gap in breastfeeding rates
Black mothers have the lowest breastfeeding rate compared to white and Latino women. However,…
Prom King: A South Bronx-based nonprofit giving away swag and love
Evelyn started Prom King as a way to give professional clothing to young men…
On Amber Rose: “I want my daughter to have sexy role models too!”
I want my daughter to have grown women who are complex role models.
Dear President Obama: Reducing teenage pregnancy will not ‘fix’ America
As a teenage mother, I feel slighted by President Obama’s following comment:
A Vest That Moves People: A Q&A With Benita Ulisano of the Clinic Vest Project
As increasingly hostile anti-choice legislatures pass policies aimed at restricting women’s access to quality health care, the Clinic Vest Project is supporting the people who are on the front lines protecting patients’ ability to exercise their reproductive rights.
Being a teen mom in the ‘mom club’
Motherhood can seem like a very lonely journey, but when societal stigma and shame about your maternal age are prevalent, it can be even more isolating.
I don’t buy my daughter Christmas gifts
Single parenting, Christmas shopping and why I let my family buy the gifts
Why I take my daughter with me to the gynecologist
Bringing my daughter with me to the gynecologist appointments has helped us talk about women’s health without it being an abstract or taboo concept to her.
The Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act Best of the Left Activism
Because of a legislative onslaught of unconstitutional laws that have left almost 90% of Americans living in counties without abortion providers, the media and activism focus on issues of choice and reproductive rights typically centers around abortion care.