KUOW Newsroom ‘The day I was reduced to a Black birthing body.’ A doctor reflects on pregnancy I never would have predicted that becoming a mother would make me a better doctor. Like most Black women I know, I vividly remember every painstaking detail of my pregnancy and birth experience.
Women's Soccer World Cup Could Be Held Every Two Years, FIFA President Says Gianni Infantino says the organization should be creative and not just copy what the men's World Cup is doing. The contest is now held every four years.
Seattle Protests for Civil Rights Reports of bizarre menstrual cycles emerge after tear gas exposure from Seattle protests Amid ongoing civil rights demonstrations in Seattle, protesters, journalists, and even people blocks from the action have reported abnormal menstrual cycles after being exposed to tear gas.
The Nudge And Tie Breaker That Took Women's Suffrage From Nay To Yea Tennessee was the final state needed to ratify the amendment that secured women the right to vote. At the last moment, a young state legislator switched his vote to yes after his mom asked him to.
KUOW Newsroom Physician balances pandemic and activism: 'We need to think of racism as a disease' Voices of the pandemic features people in the Seattle area who are on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak.
Mexican Women Stay Home To Protest Femicides In 'A Day Without Us' Women across Mexico skipped school, work and social activities Monday to demonstrate against the staggering levels of violence women face in the country. About 10 women are killed in Mexico each day.
Power Of The Past: Retelling Utah's Suffragette History To Empower Modern Women Women in Utah became the first in America to vote under an equal suffrage law on Feb. 14, 1870. There are celebrations, but it means confronting the state's uncomfortable polygamy history, too.
Author Susan Straight Takes Us 'In The Country Of Women' In her new memoir, Straight tells the story of the women in her family—her Swiss-German blood relatives and her African American, Indigenous and Creole in-laws who crossed the U.S. to settle in Calif.
Morning Edition After Controversial Leaders Step Down, The Women's March Tries Again In 2020 For the fourth year, the anti-Trump Women's March will stage events in Washington, D.C., and other places. After years of controversy, the group now has new leadership and a new focus.
For These Women, The Equal Rights Amendment Has Been A Decades-Long Battle Women who fought for and against the Equal Rights Amendment decades ago — sometimes as teenagers — are watching the votes in Virginia. If
