Guest Post by Katherine H., Eastern Washington University
One of the first contact points with feminism I had was through learning about wimmin’s health. I’ll refer to the topic in this way for the sake of simplicity, but I do recognize that some men menstruate and have other concerns related to having female anatomy. My main concerns were with menstruation and birth control, especially after I found the more mainstream methods of approaching those issues weren’t working for me. I was led to a lot of resources that might not have explicitly called themselves feminist, but were clearly promoting an approach that didn’t fall into the norm of “don’t touch it, don’t look at it, and definitely don’t try to understand it because the doctor always knows best.”