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Empowerment!

By OBOS — June 1, 2011

Finding our own answers

By OBOS — February 8, 2011

Helping women then and now

By OBOS — November 10, 2011

How One Book Educated Generations About Their Bodies #OBOSTaughtMe

By Miriam Zoila Pérez — November 6, 2015

I didn’t know much about my body…

By OBOS — April 27, 2011

I first read OBOS in 1971, my senior year of high school …

By OBOS — April 23, 2011

I had never heard the word clitoris…

By OBOS — April 19, 2011

I have only love and admiration for those first brave women

By OBOS — April 30, 2011

I have proudly shared it with many young women…

By OBOS — April 29, 2011

I learned to accept myself

By OBOS — February 3, 2011

I remember being horrified and intrigued at the same time…

By OBOS — October 24, 2011

I remember thinking how pink it looked!

By OBOS — April 27, 2011

I was hungry for all the things I couldn’t name…

By OBOS — October 19, 2011

If my vagina could talk…

By OBOS — April 17, 2011

It makes the cut

By OBOS — February 3, 2011

It never occured to me

By OBOS — February 3, 2011

It reminds me to trust my body…

By OBOS — July 25, 2011

It was on the bookshelf of every hippie, woman-loving communal house in college

By Guest Contributor — April 19, 2016

It was revolutionary

By OBOS — February 2, 2011

It’s all about equality, right?

By OBOS — February 20, 2014

Lesbians! Labias! Yeast infections!

By OBOS — April 25, 2011

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