How Far We Haven’t Come

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After attending a recent event commemorating past voices of the women’s health movement, I turned on the news to watch the recent contraception hearings, and realized just how far we haven’t come. As has been pointed out by many over the course of the past few days, there were no women on the first panel of [...]

Go With Your Own Glow

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Notes from Cosmo’s Safe Sun Awards I recently attended Cosmo’s 2011 Safe Sun Awards and learned a disturbing fact: melanoma, the deadliest form of cancer, is also the second most common form of cancer for women between fifteen and thirty, a statistic we can attribute to the societal pressure teenage girls and young women face [...]

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a Democratic Congresswoman from Florida, and a Breast Cancer Survivor. In fact, she hid her disease from everyone until the end of the 2008 election. Now, she advocates for Breast Cancer Awareness all over the country. Learn more about Debbie

Fiona Lowenstein

My name is Fiona Lowenstein, and I am a high school student. I started Barbara's Angels in 2008 when I was fourteen. My interest in politics was first sparked during the Bush vs. Gore election in 2000. My site is devoted to educating girls my age about politics, women's issues, and feminism with the hope that my generation will bring a new wave of female leaders!

About Barbara

Barbara Seaman was a women's health writer, activist, mother, and grandmother. She wrote eight books and is remembered by many as a principal founder of the women's health movement. She died of lung cancer in February 2008.