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title: Our Bodies Ourselves Turns 40
date: 2023-12-04T18:00:00-05:00
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Our Bodies Ourselves Turns 40

National Association of Social Workers/ Massachusetts, FOCUS Monthly Newsletter (reprinted with permission) • September 1, 2011

> The Boston Women's Health Book Collective, now called Our Bodies, Ourselves, is one of the few surviving organizations from the early days of the women's movement. As a social worker and founder I have always felt a tremendous alignment with the mission of OBOS.

  
**Read the full story:** [Our Bodies Ourselves Turns 40](/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/FOCUS_OBOS-article.pdf) by Joan Ditzion

![](/assets/img/monogram.webp)### *Why You Can* **Trust Us** 

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- We embrace a reproductive justice framework
- We don’t accept ads or sell products
- We reject funding from the pharmaceutical industry
- We counter misinformation and disinformation
- We address the social, political, and economic factors that affect health and sexuality

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