Rina Shamilov
I opened a door to her life.
I opened a door to her life.
My family’s underground birth control history has too much resonance today.
A new anniversary edition of Night Swim gives us a chance to reexamine our conversations about antisemitism, reproductive rights, and care work– ten years later.
My abortion offered me a powerful and unexpected insight into the emotional connection between my body and mind that I haven’t experienced before or since.
I’ve spent so long learning to decenter myself in this movement that I haven’t really felt, deeply felt, how tired I am.
The repeal of Roe v. Wade allows states to grant full human rights to fertilized eggs, like the ones that have been collected from my body by my doctors.
Tapping into my Judaism helped me feel like I was not alone or unworthy of deciding what to do with my own body and my future.
As a girl who is lucky enough to have access to information and supplies for my period, it’s my job to help other girls and women who don’t have as much as me.
Many of us have lost sleep over the direction our country has taken. I offer my story here with the understanding that we must prepare to take care of each other.