"Curriculum for medical students—including in obstetrics and gynecology (OB-GYN)—currently contains zero required hours covering menopause, even though 50% of the population will go through it."
Read more in our latest newsletter by @mrsslrss.bsky.social ✉️ ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
Convo Reads by @msmagazine.com: “As the United States marks 250 years, an older Indigenous system of women-led governance offers a radically different blueprint for power and responsibility.”
Looking for a good book rec? We've got you covered. Here are our book recommendations for your next read.
📚: bookshop.org/shop/Convo_ist
"At age 50, people used to think menopause is dried up and over the hill. Age 50 is not the end. Age 50, you're at the top of your game."
Everything You Need to Know About Perimenopause (w/ @drsophiayen.bsky.social) in our latest podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Amplify! 🗣️
I’ve said it many times, in various ways, but especially here: the man’s a genocidal maniac who could burn it all down in a rage conversationalist.org/2023/02/10/d...
I wouldn’t trust anyone to tell us how this will play out, because we don’t know. The threat alone of civilizational destruction is bad enough, and so I’m trying to extend grace to people who are understandably panicking, and encouraging everyone to do what they can with the power they’ve got.
Staff Reads from our Social Media Manager: "Meat and manhood are culturally intertwined, but why? This story by @voxdotcom.bsky.social explores the origins and the growing movement of plant-based male athletes."
"If the French figured out how to stop deifying the king, maybe someday we can figure out how to stop deifying billionaires." Cara Marsh Sheffler on Jacques-Louis David's paintings and the unlearned historical lessons from them.
As I wrote for the incredible @conversationalist.org, “If women’s health research isn’t getting funded, it’s time we reclaim some control and fund the damn research ourselves.”
conversationalist.org/2025/09/19/m...
"Guardians of the Mangroves" has been longlisted for the One World Media Awards for Environmental Reporting. Congrats, Aliya Bashir!
We love this story!
"Whether solo or in communion with other Black women, it is not at all hyperbole for me to say that time and time again, I have found salvation in art museums," writes Gabrielle Horton.
New podcast alert! 🚨
Journalist Sara Cincurova reads her article "Motherhood on the Frontlines", sharing stories of the single mothers raising Ukraine's most vulnerable children amidst the ongoing war with Russia.
Listen here ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
🏺 Female artist using art as her voice
🏺 Based in Perth, Western Australia
🏺 Building a worldwide community
This is Day in a Life, a series where we follow interesting people doing interesting things. Meet Claudia Lam, a potter and illustrator making colorful creations. Who do you want to see next?
In an era of rising authoritarianism and billionaire autocrats, defenders of human rights cannot afford to retreat. #MsReads via @conversationalist.org
March Book of the Month 📚:
"Will the Future Like You?" by Patricia Martin begins with a declaration: Our personal identities have not kept pace with the tempo of technology. And this imbalance has made us wholly unprepared to explore who we really are.
Convo Reads: "There were women who made headlines, world leaders remembered for decisions that altered the course of a nation, athletes who reimagined what was physically possible, and there were those who died before their time, leaving behind an unfinished draft or a song."
“Supermarkets are rapidly displacing other retailers to become the place of choice to buy food. In doing so, supermarkets have become a major force in the Global South, not just in retailing, but in agricultural purchasing.”
How Kenya’s grocery stores might be hurting farmers by @alexcpark.com.
Recording this episode was the last thing I did before maternity leave, and considering how dire things have been, it still left me so hopeful. Listening to the leaders running women and girls nonprofits in Cambodia and Zimbabwe tell US feminists: welcome to the club, here’s how we make it work.
Founder @alindguzik.bsky.social chats with Chandy Eng of Gender and Development for Cambodia and Judith Dembetembe of The Girls' Legacy in Zimbabwe.
More here ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Season 3 of The Conversationalist Podcast is here! 🎙️
We're kicking it off with a hopeful conversation about how global nonprofits are combatting gender inequality around the world.
Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
"But these samba school parades allow communities to reclaim the narrative and ensure these important histories get preserved for generations to come."
Read more in our latest Conversationalist newsletter by
@mrsslrss.bsky.social ✉️ ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
Staff Reads from our Newsletter Editor: "Many Americans are at least passively aware of the horrors of the commercial meat industry. But I learned so much from this report about animal mistreatment in a relatively newer part of the industry—calf-raising farms—and what can be done to stop it."
“The dominant narratives will tell histories that are important to the elites… Carnival gives us autonomy to tell our own histories.” Samba schools in Brazil are teaching Black history through the parades at Carnival. Story by @nicolefroio.bsky.social.
“The dominant narratives will tell histories that are important to the elites… Carnival gives us autonomy to tell our own histories.” Samba schools in Brazil are teaching Black history through the parades at Carnival. Story by @nicolefroio.bsky.social.
"I rise
I rise
I rise."
- Maya Angelou
