June is Pride Month, a time to celebrate the diversity, resilience, and authenticity of LGBTQIA+ communities. It's also an opportunity to explore what connection, pleasure, and queer intimacy mean outside of traditional expectations. The word “queer,” once used as a derogatory term, has been reclaimed and reappropriated as a positive identity label for people who are LGBTQIA+. For some people, queer feels more expansive than labels such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or pansexual

Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery can completely change how you feel in your body — emotionally, physically, hormonally, and sexually. If your sex drive after pregnancy feels lower than it used to, you're in good company. Sexual desire is already complicated for many people with vulvas on a normal day. Then pregnancy and birth happen. Your body spends months growing a human, your hormones fluctuate dramatically, your sleep disappears, and your nervous system is trying