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Journalist and author of Birth Control and 90s Bitch. Wide awake. Unless napping.

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Allison Yarrow is an award-winning journalist, speaker, and the author of 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality (Harper Perennial, 2018), named New and Noteworthy by the New York Times, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club book award, and The Mother Load, a forthcoming book about how structural patriarchy and white supremacy shape the transition to motherhood, (Hachette/Seal Press). Allison has written for many publications including the New York Times, t…

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It's a scary time to have a baby in a hospital. Home births need to be more accessible to pregnan...

It's a scary time to have a baby in a hospital. Home births need to be more accessible to pregnan...

Giving birth at a hospital amid a pandemic means a new mother, her partner, and baby could be at risk of deve…

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Opinion | One Hospital's Plan to Reduce C-sections: Communicate

Opinion | One Hospital's Plan to Reduce C-sections: Communicate

There might be fewer unneeded cesarean sections if doctors learned to keep mothers informed at every stage of…

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How the 90s planted the seed for the Kavanaugh-Ford conflict

How the 90s planted the seed for the Kavanaugh-Ford conflict

Anita Hill was in the room. Not physically, but the presence of the professor who accused Clarence Thomas of …

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Why Choosing Single Motherhood Still Means Breaking All The Rules

Why Choosing Single Motherhood Still Means Breaking All The Rules

For the second year in a row, Bustle is bringing you Rule Breakers, a celebration of women and non-binary ind…

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Perspective | Why do we understand so little about breast-feeding?

Perspective | Why do we understand so little about breast-feeding?

By now, you've likely heard that breast-feeding is good. Women hear the mantra "breast is best" practically f…

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"Mummy tummy" affects most women post pregnancy. Yet no one talks about it.

"Mummy tummy" affects most women post pregnancy. Yet no one talks about it.

After Jenna Angst gave birth to her second child, she noticed that her midsection didn't look right. "I was f…

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No duh! These audiobooks of and about the 1990s are the bomb

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By Susie Dumond, Aisha Harris Verified, Chuck Klosterman, Allison Yarrow Verified
| Audible Blog
We're only now reaching a point far enough past the 1990s to have the context to understand how the era shaped our world. The '90s were a pivotal decade, full of big changes in technology, politics, entertainment, fashion, and literature. One of the best ways to retrospectively understand the decade, and its lasting impact on everyone who lived through it, is with a bit of listening. Bestselling books from the 1990s and narratives analyzing the time period offer fresh perspective and insight.
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Our broken birthing system

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By Allison Yarrow Verified
| Washington Examiner Verified
Childbirth in the United States is broken. This is not merely an opinion, and the data keep adding up. The U.S. maternal mortality rate, already the highest in the developed world, has more than doubled in two decades, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found that 1 in 5 women experienced mistreatment in their maternity care.
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The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

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By Allison Yarrow Verified, Kyo Maclear, Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
| Next Big Idea Club Podcast
H. Luke Shaefer is the Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy at the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy. He also directs Poverty Solutions, a university-wide initiative that partners with communities and policymakers to find new ways to prevent and alleviate poverty. Kathryn Edin is the William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
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