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Safe, legal, affordable, and uninhibited access to abortion is a global issue and necessity. Read more to get a current, international, intersectional picture of both the existing access and the existing barriers.

Say hello to our new zine, F*ck Me!, which, like everything else at Scarleteen, is free for anyone and everyone who wants it. F*ck Me! is a flight of super-helpful fancy that can help you – or your intimate companions, your platonic friends, your students, the people who come into your clinic, your…

A clear-eyed, in-depth exploration of mainstream porn that can: amp up your sexual media literacy so you can better suss out what’s really going on with and in porn, fill you in on how it may or may not – and sometimes just plain shouldn’t – match your expectations or experiences of sexuality offscreen, and tell you more about its politics and behind-the-scenes realities.

If you’re a young person, you may not know it, but you can probably access methods of birth control without your parent’s permission, and even for free! Here’s a starter guide for those in the United States, as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, South Africa and India.

Point of Pride offers an Annual Transgender Surgery Fund, a Free Chest Binder Donation Program, a Free Trans Femme Shapewear Program, an Electrolysis Financial Support Program, and other community-building support initiatives for trans youth and adults. They offer support to all fifty states and…

Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their futures. It offers a variety of supports for trans and gender-nonconforming people looking to navigate legal issues and other challenges…

What would happen if we believed women? This groundbreaking anthology offers a potent rallying cry and theory of change.

In Hanne Blank’s Fat we find fat as state, as possession, as metaphor, as symptom, as object of desire, intellectual and carnal. Here, “feeling fat” and literal fat merge, blurring the boundaries and infusing one another with richer, fattier meanings.

A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid.

A quick, easy and important educational illustrated guide to giving and receiving consent in sex, relationships, and other physical contact.

Fearlessly honest, wry, and tender, Jolie digs into both the pain of past traumas and the joy of teenaged discovery to craft a love letter to the brassy, big-haired women who raised her and the 90s alternative, riot grrrl culture that shaped her into who she is today: a queer femme with PTSD and a deep love of the Midwest.

Queer Flagging 101 is an introduction to what flagging is and how you can use it, plus a few resources for where you can explore the topic in a little more depth!

Hi Ghost, It sounds like pleasure is a bit tricky to figure out - both by yourself and with a partner. Fortunately, there are solutions! You’ve touched on something important by mentioning that you don’t experience much pleasure not only in your genitals, but also in most of your skin. It might help…

First off, in case it helps to hear this: it’s all right to want to break up with your boyfriend. You’re allowed to end a relationship for any reason, and “I only want to date women, and my partner is now very clearly not a woman” is a perfectly valid one. Sometimes, a person’s gender transition…

I’ve been saving this very wonderful birthday-card-of-sorts from the also-very-wonderful Liz for almost a year now, looking for just the right time to post it. Seeing as we’re two days away from the end of this 20th year and our next (our 21st!) birthday, it certainly feels like a good time. If you…

Who knew a discussion with an ex-boyfriend about squirting would set Pussypedia co-founder Zoe Mendelson on a quest across the internet in search of trustworthy, fact-based sexual health information about her body that led to starting a bilingual, diverse, and inclusive digital encyclopedia? (Not Zoe!) We talked to her to find out all about this new resource and Zoe’s experience making it.

There’s a short answer and a long answer to your question. The short answer is: yes, someone can enjoy “feminine” things like make-up or dresses and still be a feminist. We don’t have a dress code you have to follow to be part of the club. The long answer is that there are many reasons why you, and…

It can be incredibly frustrating when a part of the body we strongly associate with, and expect to give us, pleasure ends up causing us chronic pain. If you have chronic pelvic pain, what do you do if you want to get sexual with yourself or someone else? How can you be physically intimate if you’re in pain? How do you talk to your partners? If it starts hurting, should you stop? This guide from Nicole Guappone offers some great help with all this and more.

I know you’ll be flooded this week with people asking for money from you. If your inbox has been anything like mine, you’ve already suffered through a solid week of targeted marketing landmines and nonstop sparkly coercions to spend money buying everything and anything on earth, no less. So, I’m…