by Lexi Reich | May 10, 2021 | Health
//Illustration by Madison Lauterbach | mlauterbach@msmayhem.com Kelly Sammis thinks that sometimes we remain feeling broken because we don’t know things can be different. Ten years after surviving a sexual assault in college, Sammis says her pelvis was speaking to...
by Madison Lauterbach, Polina Saran | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured six, Health
//Elise Lopez looks out her kitchen window after finishing up a custom jewelry order on Nov. 13. Photo by Polina Saran | polinasarana@gmail.com Elise Lopez sat in what she calls her special chair—a mid-century, wicker barrel back—in the middle of her living room. The...
by Lexi Reich | Oct 1, 2021 | Equity, Features
//Members of Fat Babes in the Wild hiking group at Lake Brainard. Photo courtesy of Rachael Gareri. When Rachael Gareri went on her first hike after moving to Colorado three years ago, she hyper-fixated on her breathing patterns and tried to take up as little space as...
by Keegan Williams | Dec 3, 2021 | Featured six, Health
//Lorenne Gavish, program manager at Keep Abortion Safe, at her house in west Denver on Dec. 2. Photo by Polina Saran | polinasarana@gmail.com Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect Lorenne Gavish’s change in title at Keep Abortion Safe. As...
by Alexandra Cummings | Sep 6, 2021 | News
//Christy Powell and Mallory Garner-Wells (front left) were among those protesting a new Texas law restricting abortion at a Reproductive Rights Rally on Sept. 4 on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol. Photos by Esteban Fernandez | efernandez@msmayhem.com Facing a...
by Lexi Reich | Jul 5, 2021 | Health
//Rose Schlosser stares out a window in her Loveland home on July 2. Schlosser underwent endometrial ablation in 2012 for the endometrioma on her left ovary. She is one of the 6.5 million Americans who have the common but misunderstood gynecological disease. Photo by...
by Alexandra Cummings | Jun 15, 2021 | Health
//Prisca Sisa overlooks the Denver city skyline of Blake Street on May 27. Sisa became a young mother when she was 17 and decided to hold off on having more children after. She didn’t realize until she was a patient at Mother’s Clinic that she could access free birth...
by Lexi Reich | Jun 25, 2021 | Health
//Dr. Kristina Tocce sits inside her Planned Parenthood office on June 23. Having worked as an OBGYN for 20 years, Dr. Tocce is the vice president and medical director at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. Photo by Madeleine Kelly | mkellyindependent@gmail.com...
by Anna Sutterer | May 7, 2021 | Health, News
//Janelle Jenkins, community advocate and mother of two, stands outside the State Capitol on May 1. She sits on three councils within Colorado’s Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Photo by Anna Sutterer | asutt99@gmail.com In 2005, Janelle Jenkins...
by Lexi Reich | Feb 5, 2021 | Equity, Features, Local Business
//Photo provided by The Growhaus. Many groups that identify as Latinx pride themselves on flavorful cooking using staples like rice, beans, tortillas, oils and maseca. So, when loads of donated eggplant were left untouched at a food pantry in Elyria-Swansea, The...
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