Social Justice

Join Us: Stop Sexual Health Censorship 

What is Intimacy Justice? Last fall, many of you joined us at Sensing Woman, our 5-day event to benefit women’s health education and legislation- with 50 visual artists, musicians, and speakers. We discussed censorship, shame,

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Structured Love is Within Our Capacity

Dear Rose Woman Community, It’s #pridemonth, where we bring some focused attention to human sexuality and gender diversity, with a focus on LGBTQIA* rights, where we might question and redefine what the culture previously considered

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Samantha Sleeper appointed President, Rosebud Woman (not the official announcement, the heart based musing version) When I was starting Rosebud, I sat in Samantha’s Brooklyn kitchen and we debated formulas, need, voice, packaging and design.

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Mayor of NYC

No Shame: Mayor of NY says Clitoral Stimulation

New York Mayor Eric Adams: “We can talk about erectile dysfunction but not clitoral stimulation…Something is wrong.” He continued, “We would have a lot more research and care options for women’s health if we weren’t

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MLK

“I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter…because I’ve been to the mountaintop…. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life…. But I’m not

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christine

Systemic Problems Aren’t Personal Defects

Hello Rose People,  I’m around people who are talking about sexuality, women’s health and menopause a lot of the time, and sometimes I begin to think that the work we’re involved in at Rosebud Woman

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Highland Park Shooting

Once upon a time we would dress the children in sailor dresses and color blocked Gap tees and tie American flag bandannas on the 2 big white dogs and put streamers on strollers bikes and

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Seeing Humanity as Part of Nature

Reconciling Laudato Si (2015, Reaffirmed 2020-2021) with the Papal Response to Dubium on Same-Sex Unions (2021) In this essay, I’m going to expand on my general frustration with the inconsistencies in the teachings of  the Roman

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Femicide and the Right to Be

Every person has the right to be, regardless of their particular kind of embodiment. I was about to send out a newsletter focusing on pleasure and peace, and then the killings in Georgia happened. So

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