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The Femedic is no longer accepting commissions. Thank you to all our contributors and readers.
The Femedic exists because we want women and people with vaginas to be able to access better content about their health, that is accurate, genuinely useful, trustworthy, and inclusive.
We know that health is more than the physical symptoms we experience — it’s affected by everything that makes up our world, including emotional, social, cultural, lifestyle, and even political factors. We think it’s essential that health content addresses and understands this complete picture.
That's why we had two content streams: Medical and Editorial.
What we published
Our Medical stream was content written by medical professionals and responds to questions that are clinical in nature. This mostly pertains to physical and mental health. We usually commission our medical writers to write on specific topics rather than accept unsolicited pitches.
Our Editorial stream covered all aspects of health that are non-clinical in nature. This includes social and political factors, identity, culture, discrimination, gender, lifestyle, and sharing particular experiences. This content is usually issue and experience-led, and does not require clinical knowledge or expertise to investigate.
If you would like to add references to your piece, we use the Oxford system (footnotes).
The types of Editorial content we published are:
First-person essays and narratives
These pieces typically describe health and personal experiences with the broad aim of awareness-raising. We are particularly interested in pieces that explore experiences through the lens of underrepresented identities.
Features
We love pieces that are bold and challenging, that encourage our readers to look at particular issues from a new perspective or teach them something new. When you are pitching, bear in mind why you are the best person to write this.
Features are for telling reported stories in more depth, and cover a broad range of health-related topics.
Perhaps there is a specific area of medical research or treatment that is underfunded, perhaps the consequences of a condition affecting people aren’t accurately portrayed by the media, or perhaps there is a community who are disproportionately affected by a certain condition because of lack of funding or lack of awareness. We want you to set the record straight on these issues which are going under the radar of the national media.
Features can investigate specific issues and topics, like this piece exploring the impacts of abstinence-only sex education or this piece investigating whether or not menstrual cups can really shorten your period.
They can also work to amplify certain voices and experiences. For example, exploring women’s experiences treating vaginismus, challenging assumptions about asexuality, or explaining how Black women are (still) being held back by sexual double standards.
Page last updated November 2024
