Julia Craven

3 days ago | healthyfutures.blog | Julia Craven

I’ve noticed something peculiar as I’ve watched the latest season of Love Island USA. A woman on the show will have sex with the man she’s coupled up with, and the internet—well, mainly TikTok commentators—will morph into a tribunal on morality.

2 weeks ago | healthyfutures.blog | Julia Craven

Word counts are a necessary evil in media. No editor or writer I know is particularly fond of them, but we understand that word counts keep a piece from going off the rails, thus making the content more engaging and informational for readers. That said, I performed somewhat of a gut job on my last piece published at New America, which was a story about how doulas can make a world of difference for Black moms. Don’t let the language I’m using cause you to assume that I hated the end result.

2 weeks ago | healthyfutures.blog | Julia Craven

It’s peculiar that, in 2025, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) continues to base its guidelines for postpartum blood pressure treatment on a single study of just 67 participants, published nearly four decades ago in 1987. During the postpartum period, a new parent’s blood pressure can quietly spike to life-threatening levels.

3 weeks ago | healthyfutures.blog | Julia Craven

I had grand plans to sit down and write something, anything, after my 30 minutes on the treadmill. But I made the mistake of checking my email for the third time today, only to see the fourth rejection letter of the week. (Mind you, I’m writing this on Thursday.) It was another gut punch in a series of me getting my ass whooped by life whe…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Healthy Futures to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

3 weeks ago | healthyfutures.blog | Julia Craven |Haley Swenson

The concept of the mental load—the combination of emotional and cognitive work a person does to keep themselves and those they care for functioning—has entered mainstream conversations about gender inequality and the modern household at a remarkable pace. Its rapid adoption suggests it resonates. Yet, the mental load, much like the work-family balance discourse, has remained mostly associated with and circulated most prominently among white and professional-class people.