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title: Stories and Conversations
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# Stories and Conversations

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![Pregnant woman](https://assets.ourbodiesourselves.org/transforms/8e7c4b8f83597bb349b59bd2e9858edf/49144/pregnant-woman-488805.jpeg_2cfb210fb7765b4c37db9f0f2dfea123.jpg)

[![](/assets/img/quote.png)You see it on TV, the women have a baby and they’re wearing this frilly little nightgown and their hair looks beautiful and they’re breastfeeding their baby, but it just doesn’t look like that… you are drenched, and your hair is a mess, and it's like so physically intense](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/stories-conversations/my-story-wishing-i-knew-more-about-the-postpartum-process)

[![201404suneela 1 jpg](https://assets.ourbodiesourselves.org/transforms/8e7c4b8f83597bb349b59bd2e9858edf/49229/201404suneela-1.jpg_4518fb698880a912fb19e598ce6d42fa.jpg)](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/stories-conversations/my-story-i-claim-the-right-to-choose-my-ultimate-gender)

[![](/assets/img/quote.png)I think we often neglect the mental health of women of color, and I’ve experienced that firsthand with how I was treated in regards to my mental health and my issues.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/stories-conversations/my-story-helping-break-the-stigma-that-surrounds-mental-health-for-women-of-color)

[![My Story: Finding the Right Contraception](https://assets.ourbodiesourselves.org/transforms/8e7c4b8f83597bb349b59bd2e9858edf/49214/Screenshot-2022-11-04-144238_874b4080bcb590d5b8c946bd32202346.jpg)](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/stories-conversations/finding-the-right-contraception)

[![](/assets/img/quote.png)I’ve been calling it reverse puberty [perimenopause]...your hormones go crazy…it just feels very out of control...I don’t understand what’s happening with my body, and I don’t understand how to make myself feel better.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/stories-conversations/my-story-recognizing-my-symptoms-of-perimenopause-on-my-own)

[![](/assets/img/quote.png)I began to see myself for who I truly was: a beautiful, intelligent, thoughtful, and valuable individual who just happened to contract an infection.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/stories-conversations/my-story-what-its-really-like-living-with-a-sexually-transmitted-infection)

Women and gender-expansive people are experts on our own lives. While we learn from professionals and experts, we also learn from what we live through. We invite you to explore these powerful, diverse personal testimonies.   
  
[Learn more about why Our Bodies Ourselves includes personal stories.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/we-are-experts-on-our-own-lives)

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## Your Stories

Our Bodies Ourselves integrates the voices and perspectives of women and gender-expansive people from all walks of life.

[Share Your Story](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/stories-conversations/share-your-story)

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

- We rigorously evaluate all content
- 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

[read more](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/why-you-can-trust-us)