🌎 More than a dozen health and environmental groups are suing the EPA for its repeal of the endangerment finding, which was the foundation for many U.S. climate regulations.
🏳️⚧️ Transgender Kansans sued the state after it abruptly invalidated hundreds of licenses and birth certificates, saying their constitutional rights had been violated.
People doing good
Courtesy of Foundation for Women's Health
Lupita Nyong’o launched a GoFundMe for women’s health research after discovering she has 50 uterine fibroids
In 2014, Lupita Nyong’o was regularly fatigued, pre-anemic, and felt immense pain during her periods — and as most women are taught, “pain was simply part of being a woman,” so she “didn’t question it.”
As it turned out, she had more than 30 uterine fibroids — noncancerous growths that line the walls of her uterus that can cause a number of debilitating symptoms. She got them surgically removed, and then learned that there was nothing she could do to prevent them from returning. They did — and this time, there were 50.
Refusing to accept this reality, she partnered with the Foundation for Women’s Health and GoFundMe to launch a fundraiser and pave the way for a research grant that supports the development of minimally invasive and non-invasive fibroid treatments.
Why is this good news?Fibroids affect up to 80% of women by age 50, and many go without relief, as fibroid treatment is currently limited to invasive surgeries. Black women are also disproportionately affected and experience fibroids earlier and with more severe symptoms.
This fundraiser will help support critical research into other treatment and prevention options.
It’s Women’s History Month — take action to intentionally celebrate all month long
March is Women’s History Month, an annual celebration in the United States that recognizes and celebrates the contributions of women all throughout the nation’s history.
And history shows how women have been erased and excluded, with women of color, transgender women, and queer women subjected to even more harmful oppression than their white, cisgender sisters.
Women’s History Month is both a time to confront the very real, ongoing injustices that plague women around the world — and an invitation to celebrate and rejoice in our shared humanity.
We’re thrilled to announce the first-ever Feminist Edition!
While feminism has historically been a movement built around women’s liberation, feminism isn’t just for women — it gives us a framework to imagine a world where gender identity is not a liability, where any person you meet is legally and morally entitled to basic human rights.
The first-ever Feminist Edition of the Goodnewspaper celebrates the fight for a more equitable future and reminds us of the progress we continue to make — even when it seems like that progress has stalled.
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