Isolating. Mysterious. Helpless. All words that came up during an intimate conversation about endometriosis at the home of feminist icon Gloria Steinem. Endometriosis affects 10 percent of women worldwide, but many suffer in silence, ignored by doctors and isolated by their sometimes debilitating pain. (Debilitating—another word that kept coming up.)
But isolation wasn’t an issue at the July meetup at Steinem’s home. Hoping to amplify understanding of endometriosis and the ways it affects sufferers, Chelsea Leyland and Tatiana Steel—who in 2020 co-founded Looni, a reproductive and hormonal health platform and brand—partnered with Steinem for one of her legendary "talking circles."
