Media Mentions
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Our Bodies Ourselves Today on New England Cable News (NECN)
September 14, 2022
Executive Director Amy Agigian joined NECN to discuss the history of the book Our Bodies, Ourselves and the launch of a sex…
Our Bodies Ourselves Today on MSNBC
September 13, 2022
Program Director Saniya Lee Ghanoui appeared on Zerlina Maxwell’s show on Peacock/MSNBC to talk about the recent abortion bans and how Our…
Welcome to Our Bodies Ourselves Today!
September 9, 2022
Dear Readers, We are thrilled to welcome you to Our Bodies Ourselves Today, a unique and trustworthy guide to your body and…
Our Bodies Ourselves Today Launches Sex and Health Website For a New Generation
September 9, 2022
Our Bodies Ourselves Today launched its new website on September 9, bringing a new look and more evidence-based information to women, girls…
Our Bodies Ourselves Today Calls on Journalists and Public to Stop Using the Term “Grooming”
August 9, 2022
Invoking the terminology of child abuse to oppose education & LGBTQIA rights is dangerous. Our Bodies Ourselves Today joins over fifty organizations…
The Evolution of Our Bodies Ourselves Today
June 1, 2022
Our Bodies Ourselves Today founder and executive director, Amy Agigian, joined Our Bodies Ourselves co-founder Judy Norsegian, Our Bodies Ourselves global partner…
“Our Bodies, Ourselves” Expands Its Impact
May 2, 2022
Suffolk University has received an anonymous $2 million gift to endow its Center for Women’s Health & Human Rights, which will enable…
Our Bodies, Ourselves Book Talk
August 25, 2021
“The Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks features a discussion of Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published in 1971. This event was organized in recognition…
Our Bodies, Ourselves: A BBC Radio 4 Production
April 24, 2021
A wonderful hour-long radio documentary that features interviews with founders of Our Bodies Ourselves alongside vivid recordings from the early feminist movement…
The Clitoris, Pain and Pap Smears: How Our Bodies, Ourselves Redefined Women’s Health
April 22, 2021
At one point, Sanford remembers, the speaker held up a lifesize picture of a woman, with legs apart, to show the location…
The Evolution of Our Bodies Ourselves
April 19, 2021
In this online video, sponsored by Suffolk University, Judy Norsigian, co-founder and board chair of Our Bodies Ourselves, Amy Agigian, executive director…
Newton Writers Reflect on 50 Years of ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’
October 30, 2019
In 1973, Simon & Schuster published the first commercial edition … and by 1976, it was “recognized by the American Library Association’s…
June 3, 2019
In a time when “wellness” has become synonymous with “health,” it’s not difficult to wonder why a book dedicated to bringing rigorous…
Boston Sunday Review: Judy Norsigian
May 27, 2019
In this podcast, OBOS cofounder Judy Norsigian talks about the fight for women’s reproductive rights in the United States and how recent…
Our Bodies Ourselves 50th Anniversary Celebration
May 14, 2019
Panelists at the May 10, 2019 celebration of Our Bodies Ourselves include, from l – r: Suffolk student Sabrina Dias, Suffolk student…
Remembering The Meeting 50 Years Ago That Led To ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’
May 8, 2019
This is how movements get started: There’s a little conversation here, and another in another community, and people get connected somehow —…
American Journal of Public Health: Our Bodies Ourselves
May 8, 2019
The June 2019 issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) features reflections by cofounder Judy Norsigian on the women’s health…
April 5, 2019
As members of the anti-abortion movement have sought increasingly extreme restrictions on the procedure — and have rolled back access to contraception…
Ely Exhibit Revisits “Our Bodies, Ourselves”
March 8, 2019
That sense of history, the fragility of progress, and the need to continue to work to move forward permeate “Our Bodies Ourselves,”…
From Mowing the Grass to Cutting the Flesh: How Young Women Learn to Hate their Genitals
March 7, 2019
If we were sometimes silly, we were also wise enough to know that understanding and taking control of our bodies was a…
Long Ago and Far Away, ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ Bonded Us As Women
September 28, 2018
The announcement that the organization behind Our Bodies, Ourselves will shift its focus to advocacy as of October 1 and no longer update the…
