Welcome to Women's Health
Empowered Care, Informed Choices
Your body. Your knowledge. Your power.
You deserve healthcare that treats you as a whole person—not just a collection of symptoms to manage or a uterus to monitor.
Women’s Health provides medical expertise grounded in the reality of your life. We don’t discuss PCOS without examining why healthy food costs three times more in certain neighborhoods. We don’t analyze maternal mortality without addressing housing quality, workplace protections, and economic security. We don’t prescribe antidepressants for postpartum depression without acknowledging the absence of paid family leave that forces you back to work while your body is still healing.
The clinical expertise remains central—this is medicine written by a practicing OB/GYN who delivers babies and sees patients daily. But it’s no longer artificially isolated from the systems that actually determine whether you thrive or just survive.
What You’ll Find Here
Women’s Health covers the full spectrum of reproductive and sexual health across your entire life:
Medical explanations in plain language, not jargon
Evidence-based guidance for making informed decisions about your care
Clinical expertise contextualized within social realities
Practical tools for navigating a healthcare system that wasn’t built for you
Honest conversations about what your doctor might not tell you
Our Six Focus Areas
Each subjournal addresses a specific aspect of women’s health and reproductive justice:
The EmpowerHER Journal - Your comprehensive guide to reproductive healthcare navigation
Her Health Matters - Medical education in plain English, no jargon required
Yemaya’s Circle of Care - Pregnancy and postpartum support rooted in power and trust
Pleasure & Power - Sexual health that centers autonomy, healing, and joy
Roots & Wings - Parenting while healing, mothering while breaking cycles
Second Act - Menopause and midlife transitions on your terms
Who This Is For
Women’s Health serves women navigating reproductive healthcare in an era of restrictions, barriers, and systemic failures. We center Black and Brown women—who face the worst outcomes—because building solutions for those most harmed by broken systems creates healthcare that protects everyone.
You belong here if you:
Want medical information you can actually understand and use
Are tired of being dismissed or gaslit by healthcare providers
Need to advocate for yourself or someone you love
Want to understand how policy and economics affect your health
Believe your health outcomes shouldn’t be determined by your ZIP code
From Dr. Yamicia Connor
Founder, Diosa Ara & Editor-in-Chief, Women’s Health
“I deliver that healthy baby to a woman apologizing for ‘failing’ to attend prenatal care—while working two jobs, raising six kids, with no transportation. The system created impossible barriers, then convinced her that her inability to overcome them was a personal moral failing.
That’s the fundamental lie of American healthcare: we’ve convinced women that their health outcomes are primarily determined by individual choices, when research shows only 10% comes from medical care. The other 90%? Your housing, your work, your ZIP code, the policies governing your life.
Women’s Health tells you the truth about how health actually works—and gives you the knowledge to navigate systems that weren’t designed with your survival in mind.”
Start Here
New to Women’s Health? Begin with:
Her Health Matters for foundational medical education
The EmpowerHER Journal for reproductive justice context
Your specific life stage: Yemaya’s Circle (pregnancy), Roots & Wings (parenting), Second Act (menopause)
Welcome. We’re glad you’re here.
