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Editor’s Note on gender and identity coverage
We are excited to announce a new gender and identity page on washingtonpost.com
The Washington Post
January 25, 2022
January 25, 2022
First-person
Perspective
Law schools are failing to prepare the next generation of leaders in reproductive rights and justice
As of 2019, less than one-third of law schools offered classes on these topics
Nina Henry
January 24, 2022
January 24, 2022
Perspective
What does it mean to come together as Asian American women? This group has been seeking an answer.
The Cosmos was formed in 2017, and its future hangs in the balance
Sarah Belle Lin
January 24, 2022
January 24, 2022
Perspective
When my plants wither, it feels like a reflection of my own setbacks
Taking care of myself and my plants can be an uphill battle
Bianca Xunise
January 23, 2022
January 23, 2022
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The Fight
National Youth Poet Laureate Alexandra Huỳnh’s message to other young people: ‘Your story is always going to be important’
Read our Q&A with the Stanford freshman — and her poem ‘Life Cycle of a Catcall’
Madeline Weinfield
January 22, 2022
January 22, 2022
LAFD was embroiled in allegations of harassment. Now it’s poised to get its first female fire chief.
Kristin Crowley was just nominated to the post
Soo Youn
January 21, 2022
January 21, 2022
News
After a professor’s sexist remarks went viral, a student raised more than $100,000 for a women’s scholarship
The Boise State professor suggested that male students should be prioritized for STEM, medicine and law
Janay Kingsberry
January 20, 2022
January 20, 2022
Perspective
When I left home for college, I lost touch with my Japanese heritage. As an adult, I’m reclaiming it.
After years of feeling like a minority within a minority, I realized I didn’t want to live my life detached from my culture
Mica Soellner
January 20, 2022
January 20, 2022
Michelle Go was pushed to her death on the NYC subway. For many, it highlights failures in public safety for women.
Public spaces, particularly public transit, have long been fraught for women of color and nonbinary people
Anne Branigin
January 19, 2022
January 19, 2022
Perspective
As disabled women, our lives have always been erased. But in a pandemic, they’re urgently at stake.
Recent CDC comments about omicron were a reminder of the regular erasure, oppression and disrespect we experience
Mary Fashik and
Corie Walsh
January 19, 2022
January 19, 2022
Politics
Senators are pushing to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. Will it help Indigenous communities?
The 2022 version of VAWA would include new provisions expanding tribal jurisdiction over gendered violence
Abigail Higgins
January 18, 2022
January 18, 2022
First-person
Perspective
What an interventional radiologist does in a workday
A kyphoplasty, a working lunch and a thankful patient
Aparna Baheti
January 18, 2022
January 18, 2022
Perspective
Postpartum depression crushed me after my second baby. How would I prepare for a third?
I’d always wanted three kids. But if the darkness returned, would I be able to survive it?
Lauren Chval
January 17, 2022
January 17, 2022
Perspective
Kate not Katie: Why I dropped the ‘i’ in my name
As I got older, my name started to feel like a too-small sweater
Kate Wheeler
January 16, 2022
January 16, 2022
In a memo about body image, a middle school offered shapewear for girls. This mom spoke out.
Ashley Heun hopes the incident offers an opportunity to have what she considers a much-needed conversation about body image
Soo Youn
January 15, 2022
January 15, 2022
Perspective
Everyone gets rejected. Here’s what our readers learned from their toughest ones.
From college waitlists to ghosted job applications, professional rejection is a fact of life
Hannah Good
January 15, 2022
January 15, 2022
Actress Moses Ingram made us a Shakespearean heartbreak playlist
Ingram plays Lady Macduff in ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth,’ now in theaters and streaming on Apple TV Plus
Hannah Good
January 14, 2022
January 14, 2022
California said it would be a ‘sanctuary’ for reproductive rights. It just took a big first step.
Earlier this month, AG Robert Bonta issued the state’s first legal alert, which took up the issue of miscarriage and stillbirths
Anne Branigin
January 14, 2022
January 14, 2022
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