Your Body Started This When You Were Eight
You were eight or nine when your body started changing, and you remember exactly what came with it. A 2013 study found Black girls reach puberty at a median age of 8.8, nearly a full year before white and Asian girls. Here's what the research actually says drives it, and why Chinese medicine says the organ that opened your cycle then is the same one trying to close it at perimenopause.
Even the Clothesline Got Whitewashed
The wellness industry takes what poor folks and Black folks did to survive, repackages it, and sells it back as discovery. Here is what that actually costs Black women's bodies, and what the research confirms.