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Last summer I fell in love with a woman. This sounds like an unremarkable fact on its own. But it was remarkable — I was a straight, 34-year-old, married woman who’d never even had a same-gender crush.

Most face creams don’t really deliver on their marketing promises. In fact, they under-deliver. This is not the case with fluorouracil, which arguably punches way, way above what its simple, clinical-looking tube might suggest.

Just as much as you’re going to grow and change, it makes sense that your wants and expectations of your friendships will grow and change as well.

As a teen in the early aughts, my “period management” came down to choosing between tampons or pads at CVS and trying not to worry about TSS.

By my mid-30s, I'd resigned myself to a life without satisfying sex. As far as I could tell, great sex was a thing some women had that eluded me, like clear skin and effortless style.

Public health researcher Arline T. Geronimus wrote the book Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society years after she coined the term “weathering” to explain how constant, long-term stress brought on by discrimination prematurely ages and sickens people in marginalized groups.

When Girls debuted on HBO in 2012, I was 45 years old and was, I’ll admit it, kind of mesmerized.

Every week, I’m two people. They’re related, yes, and I’m getting better at blending them. But they live different lives and even have different friends.

The uterus is often inextricably linked to a person’s identity, and its removal is as powerful as its presence.

There are a lot, nay, a ridiculous number, of celebrities who launched beauty brands in the last several years.

Recently, on my way to pick up my son from a play date, I received this text from the other mom: "Feel free to come in! My house is lived in, and I don't care if people see it.

Tired of seeing experiences like hers “get flipping ignored,” Karen Arthur took up the cause of menopause.