Gloria Steinem, the unfinished work of equality and the danger of mistaking hard-won freedoms for the natural order When Gloria Steinem died on September 2 at the age of 92, the news carried the peculiar weight of losing someone whose influence had become both immense and increasingly difficult to see. She was immediately and correctly remembered as a journalist, author, organizer, co-founder of Ms. magazine and one of the defining voices of the modern women’s movement. Tribu

Access, fragmented care and the impossible work of being a patient in Canada Whenever health advice reaches the limits of what can responsibly be said without knowing the individual, it usually ends with the same instruction: ask your doctor. The phrase appears on medication labels, accompanies discussions of supplements, closes articles about unfamiliar symptoms and resolves nearly every question requiring knowledge beyond the reader’s own. It sounds prudent because it place

Rethinking Food, Movement and Health Beyond Diets, Trends and Quick Solutions Conversations about nutrition have a curious way of becoming personal very quickly. Recently, while playing golf, we met a young couple who asked about my work, and before long the discussion turned to their own efforts to improve the way they ate. They had tried keto for a period, then vegetarianism, followed by other approaches that had seemed promising at the time but ultimately proved difficult

There are periods in life when nothing appears sufficiently wrong to explain why everything suddenly feels like too much. There has been no catastrophe, no singular event around which we can neatly organize our distress, and perhaps not even a particularly difficult day. Instead, there has been a succession of ordinary demands: work that needs finishing, an appointment hanging over the week, an unanswered message, an irritating interaction that continues to replay long after

Yoga has been part of my life for nearly forty years. Sometimes it occupied an important place in my daily routine, and sometimes it quietly disappeared beneath the competing demands of work, university studies and everyday responsibilities. I never consciously abandoned the practice, nor did I ever stop believing in its value. Like so many healthy habits, it was simply pushed aside by the persistent illusion that there would always be time to return to it later. Looking back

Self-care has become one of the most familiar ideas in contemporary health culture and one of the least precisely examined. It is commonly presented as an intentional pause from ordinary responsibility: a massage, a quiet bath, an afternoon at a spa, a walk outdoors, an evening without plans or any of the other small pleasures through which an overextended person attempts to feel restored. There is nothing inherently superficial about these experiences. The body benefits from