Tell Us Your "Our Bodies, Ourselves" Story

By Rachel Walden — October 27, 2010

At the recent Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare Advocacy Summit and joint colloquium of the Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations (#ccckeystone), I met many interesting people with fond memories of their first experiences with the “Our Bodies, Ourselves” book. I loved hearing these stories, about how a small group of friends used the book to perform self-exams, how it motivated women to advocate for themselves or become active in women’s health and rights, and the many other ways in which the landmark book has inspired so many people.

Believe it or not, 2011 is the 40th anniversary of the first edition of the book. As part of the celebration, OBOS is releasing a new edition of the book and hosting a symposium that will bring together women who are culturally adapting and transforming “Our Bodies, Ourselves” into different formats for use in their own countries.

We’ ll be writing more about these events over the course of the next year, but for now, we invite you to share your own stories. If you have an OBOS story – however brief, or however “small” it may seem to you – please share it with us. We love to hear it, and plan to use the stories in conjunction with our 40th anniversary celebration and book release next year.

For more information on the upcoming anniversary and book, including how to support the new edition, check out our anniversary page.  Also check out our history section for lots of cool and interesting information about how the book came to be and the impact it has had over the years.

One response to “Tell Us Your “Our Bodies, Ourselves” Story”

  1. Thanx for sharing this us, Rachel. Of course I’m jealous of you, Christine, and others at OBOS (Our Bodies, Ourselves)/OBOB (Our Bodies, Our Blog). Whom get to go these events and etc. Would do anything to go 40th OBOS symposium. Guess, I have wait another 10 yrs for 50th one to go it

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