I feel the most at home in my body when I'm doing my skin-care routine—when I've just got out of the shower and I’m starting to do my face—because I'm with myself and paying a lot of attention to detail and appreciating my body.” “It's really liberating. Sex and sexuality are connected to my relationship with beauty and health. I had always admired pole dancing and stripping—I thought it was such a fascinating world. When I moved to New York, I had all this spare time. I wanted to explore what sex and sexuality meant to me when I was alone, through movement. How can I enjoy moving and being sexy just for myself? You have to build an incredible amount of strength in all these muscles that you've probably never used before. I felt strong and accomplished when I started to really nail a trick, and that made me feel beautiful.” “I love a long bath with Epsom salts. I listen to music. I pole dance—I do tricks and things. I'll just be with myself and watch my body move and see all the things that I'm capable of. I just started doing yoga, which I always hated because I was just not any good at it. So I challenged myself. It gave me an opportunity to be quiet and be with myself, and stretch. Stretching is underrated.”
On February 3rd, Anthony Fauci announced that he had seen “no red flags” in the 10,000 pregnant women who had received the vaccine in the U.S. In short, yes, simply because pregnancy itself is designated high risk for the development of severe disease, hospitalization, and even death, says Leftwich. “The MMWR [Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] estimated that pregnant women are at three times higher risk for requiring admission to an ICU or requiring a ventilator [because of COVID-19] and that their risk of death is about 70% higher than their nonpregnant peers,” adds Fradin. That risk is compounded for pregnant women of color. The maternal death rate for black mothers is already double the rate of white mothers, and nationally Black and Latina women are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 during pregnancy. So grave are the concerns around COVID-19 and maternal mortality that legislation to address the issue was introduce...
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