Supporting Women’s Health and Wellbeing at Work will Help Everyone to (See Her) Thrive Last weekend we had World Mental Health Day (10th October) but how many people know that Sunday October 18th is World Menopause Day? A day to raise awareness, reduce stigma and offer support to the millions of women globally going through Continue Reading
Cysters is a small but growing voluntary organisation, with highly ambitious plans for future expansion of our community reach, services and presence. We are a registered charity (CIO) and have run as a project for 5 years. We are passionate about raising awareness around reproductive and mental wellbeing, specifically focusing on marginalised communities. We believe Continue Reading
By: Amelia I. Benson I’m sure you know the phrase ‘Representation Matters’, this term has been used more in the last few years within the Black community especially when the movie Black Panther hit the big screen. Many just saw it as another Marvel movie, but for people of African descent and Black Africans Continue Reading
What is labiaplasty?.. Perhaps you’ve heard of it by its more common name of the “designer vagina or the barbie doll.” Well, the procedure involves “the reduction of the size of the labia minora so they do not protrude beyond the mabia majoria.” This is to give the illusion that there is a smooth curve, Continue Reading
So, Everyone has become a baker during this lockdown, and whilst we LOVE a good cake.. it doesn’t quite hit the spot, if you know what we mean. We aren’t bakers, more of a pleasure seeker, the cake doesn’t quite do it for us. But since we are in an pandemic due to Covid-19, we Continue Reading
Assalamo-alaikum and hi to you all My name is Diyanah knows as Dee to a lot of people. I am a 36-year-old British Pakistani. I suffer with PCOS and other health issues and use my experiences to support others. Fasting with a chronic health condition It has come to that time of the year again Continue Reading
By Ritu Bhathal Remember the time you huddled together with your friends, proudly exclaiming you’d finally got your period? Remember that girl standing on the outskirts, not joining in with the conversation? That was me. Remember when you’d joke about the pains, share your remedies, your experiences? Remember that girl, smiling and nodding, but not Continue Reading
By Manpreet “Singh is Queer” Virk Society is broken up into binary options like male or female, black or white, left or right, etc. The creation of binary roles has erased millions of people worldwide for centuries. Erasure causes more conflict than compromise because it creates difficulties for people who do not fit the Continue Reading
For some of us, Mother’s Day is hard. For me there is constant reminder of what I have missed out on, what PCOS has taken away from me. If I had the choice, I would cancel Mother’s Day. Hide away for the day and ignore everything leading up to it. But I can’t and I Continue Reading
Most Likely to Be Diagnosed & Most Likely to Be Left out the Spotlight Hiding in Plain Sight – Asian Women and Endometriosis by Nikita Aashi Chadha I want to start this article by alluding to a previous one (http://cysters.org/use-it-or-lose-it-white-privilege-and-the-dangers-of-a-single-story/). Last year, I wrote about the prevalence of white privilege within the reproductive health space, Continue Reading
