February 2024 Newsletter: Focus on Heart Health

This newsletter discusses heart health from a feminist perspective. In her note, Amy Agigian explains how women’s heart health is under-researched and often misdiagnosed due to healthcare bias, fatphobia, and toxic diet culture.

The newsletter provides facts about heart disease risks and additional resources. It features Dr. Dara Lee Lewis, non-invasive adult cardiologist and chair of the OBOS Today heart health panel.

The heart health content experts bring both professional and personal experiences to discussions. A personal story shares one experience of congestive heart failure, from diagnosis to becoming a heart health advocate.

This month Simmons University and MIT screened the documentary “At Your Cervix,” followed by rich conversations with OBOS Today members. The “Writing for Our Lives” event on March 6th will be the first ever Women's History Month edit-a-thon at OBOS Today.

This issue remembers Dr. Adele E. Clarke, feminist scholar-activist and invaluable contributor to Our Bodies Ourselves work. The issue concludes with a spotlight on activism by heart health content experts Anne Pollock and Maggie Teliska.