Michael Butler, the Tony-winning producer who brought Hair to Broadway in 1968 and later produced the film adaptation and many other productions of the show, died Monday in Santa Barbara. He was 95.
I Used to Be Incapacitated by Period Pain. Birth Control Gave Me My Life Back
24.10.2022 - 14:03 / glamour.com
extreme period pain and symptoms: I’d spend more than a week vomiting and sweating, with and heavy bleeding. I was missing out on life. During my periods, I was in so much pain that I couldn’t focus on anything other than trying to . I missed classes each month, but I was visibly unwell and the majority of my absences were excused.
I spent hours catching up on missed lectures or assignments. In one instance, my symptoms hit while I was at the salon for a hair appointment. I was sweating, shaking, and vomiting, and started crying and pacing because I couldn’t sit still in the pain. I used to have to get up in the middle of the night to take an hour-long shower to cool myself down and soothe my period pain. And when I felt guilty for using too much water, I would lie on the bathroom tile so that I could be somewhere cold.I didn’t want to make a habit of taking over-the-counter painkillers, so my mother and my doctor advised me to consider .
At the time, I wasn’t even aware that but with both of their OKs, I went for it. After I started taking , my period stayed the same length, but it became exponentially more manageable. (And later, when I switched to , my period almost completely stopped.) For the first time, I didn’t have to worry about missing important events, planning my life around my cycle, staying home sick, or convincing people that I was legitimately incapacitated by something that doesn’t sideline most of the female population.Before going on birth control, I would go through boxes of menstrual products every cycle. Overnight, I’d have to use two pads, shaping them into a kind of makeshift diaper to avoid leaks.
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My Mom Let Me Start Taking Birth Control Before She Was Ready
and birth control.Her upbringing was hard, and she ran away from home when she was 16. Because she felt as though her voice was taken from her when she was young, my mother empowered me with a voice and a choice. We could talk about anything. Now, as a parent of a daughter, I can only imagine the amount of anxiety my mother must’ve had around with me.
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24.10.2022 / 14:03
Are There Birth Control Pills for Men?
has caused us all to re-ask: Are there birth control pills for men? Once you do a quick Google search and confirm that the answer is no—still no, after decades of scientific advancements and social progress—you’re left with so many more questions. The naggiest one being, why aren’t there male birth control pills? In 2022, the nonexistence of a male contraceptive pill feels like a glaring inequity and societal failure, especially when you pause and consider that the first contraceptive was introduced in 1950.
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'The Handmaid's Tale': Yvonne Strahovski on Serena's Intense Birth Scene and Life as a Handmaid (Exclusive)
has seen a lot changes for Yvonne Strahovski’s character, Serena Joy, who started the season as the figurehead of Gilead following the assassination of her husband, Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes), who was mourned with an elaborate televised funeral. Since then, her plans to open a Gilead cultural center in Canada were met with extreme pushback before she eventually took up residence with Sons of Jacobs supporters, The Wheelers, where she was forced to live life as a handmaid. Now, in episode 7, «No Man’s Land,» Serena finds herself turning to June (Elisabeth Moss) for help as she gives birth to her son, Noah, as the series flashes back to their early days in Gilead, when June was still a handmaiden named Offred and the two were learning the Republic’s bizarre birthing ritual. «Serena doesn’t seem like she is redeemable, but it is quite unexpected, I think, how the season evolves,» Strahovski tells ET as she and Moss break down Serena’s birth scene.