by Amy Rawlings | Jun 6, 2025 | Amy Rawlings, Healthcare
An anonymous source who works in women’s equality shared with Scarlet Threads how there are cracks in the system which is setting women back. Medical misogyny She said, “Women are going undiagnosed and living in pain because of the medical misogyny. We also know...
by Amy Rawlings | Jun 4, 2025 | Amy Rawlings, Healthcare
Eating disorders have existed for thousands of years and they don’t discriminate. According to Beat one of the UK’s leading eating disorder charities, approximately 1.25 million people in the UK have one, and 25% of this number are male. Despite this...
by Amy Rawlings | Jun 2, 2025 | Amy Rawlings, Women-Centric Politics
Under 2021’s “heartbeat law” in Texas, abortions after 6 weeks are illegal, but the majority of women do not find out they are pregnant till after this point, leaving women with no choice. Now, new research confirms that this law is having a detrimental impact on...
by Amy Rawlings | May 31, 2025 | Amy Rawlings, Healthcare
Tom Morgan is the Board President of Project Dignity, an organization that provides period products to approximately 50,000 menstruators every month. He took over the charity when his wife Barbara passed away in 2021, and since then, it has been his mission to make a...
by Amy Rawlings | May 29, 2025 | Amy Rawlings, LGBTQ+, Women-Centric Politics
A retail assistant at one of the UK’s biggest natural cosmetics companies has spoken out against the new Supreme Court ruling. Sherrie-Leigh Tilley is a retail sales assistant and a junior gift designer for LUSH Meadowhall, a store which has taken a stance...
by Amy Rawlings | May 27, 2025 | Amy Rawlings, Healthcare
What is it? Period poverty refers to a lack of access to menstrual care due to financial deprivation. Despite common stereotypes that those without access to this vital healthcare is women from developing countries fleeing danger, the truth is it is right on our...