My Thoughts on Usher’s Herpes Lawsuit

August 9, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

This is a complicated story where no one wins.

To The Woman Who Announced Her STI on Snapchat

December 19, 2015.Reading time 3 minutes.

I learned about you when I Googled myself—as a narcissist is wont to do—and discovered I’d been mentioned in an article about you on the Daily Star. I’m not entirely sure why my efforts to destigmatize herpes were mentioned in the article, which was a masterpiece of stigmatizing, sensationalized journalism that in no way respected […]

New in Women’s Health: How to Tell Someone You Have an STD

June 18, 2015.Reading time 3 minutes.

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me in the past two months how to disclose being herpes+ to their partner, I would have enough money to cover my cell phone bill this month (and I use a LOT of data). I hate to break it to you but there is no magic script, […]