Our Bodies Ourselves history

We joined 100 other activists for Midwife Advocacy Day, organized by the Bay State Birth Coalition, at the Massachusetts Statehouse on April 14, 2026.

Updates on revised adaptations of "Our Bodies Ourselves" from Le Collectif Nos Corps Nous-mêmes, our global partner in France

Video of the "Making Our Legacy Matter" program, hosted by Our Bodies Ourselves on International Women's Day 2026.

Even our language betrays the sexist bias of reproductive health studies. Elizabeth Hlavinka discusses how we're still being harmed by a long history of ignoring, misperceiving, and discounting women's bodies.

Founders of Our Bodies Ourselves discuss their personal experience of aging and their continued commitment to making health and sexuality information accessible to all women and gender-expansive people.

Thanks to a digitization project completed by Special Collections at the Boston Public Library, the very first versions of “Our Bodies, Ourselves” are now available on Digital Commonwealth, a free, open-access site.

In 1971, when abortion was illegal in all but a few states, a group of women came together to make a documentary film. The film they made was the first from the perspective of women who had had or sought an abortion.