Anushay's point
Anushay’s Point, a Substack about women’s health, power, and the politics of who gets believed.
On Substack, Anushay Hossain writes Anushay’s Point, a newsletter exploring the intersection of women’s health, politics, culture, and power. Through essays and analysis, she examines the systems that shape how women’s bodies are treated, from medical research and healthcare institutions to policy decisions, media narratives, and cultural assumptions about whose pain is believed and whose is dismissed.
Anushay has spent years reporting on these issues through her bestselling book The Pain Gap, her podcast, and her journalism. But traditional media often leaves little space for the deeper context these conversations require. She launched Anushay’s Point to create room for that exploration.
- First, the newsletter examines how sexism, racism, and structural bias continue to shape healthcare systems and outcomes for women around the world.
- Second, it explores the credibility gap women face when it comes to their bodies, symptoms, and lived experiences, and how that gap plays out not only in medicine, but across politics, culture, and everyday life.
- Third, and most importantly, Anushay’s Point connects the personal to the systemic. Women’s health stories are often framed as isolated experiences, when in reality they reflect deeply embedded structures of power. By slowing the conversation down, Anushay helps readers see those connections more clearly.
Through original essays, cultural commentary, and reported insights, the newsletter expands on themes explored in The Pain Gap while also responding to current events, reader questions, and moments that demand context rather than headlines.
Because women’s health is never just about health, it is about credibility, justice, autonomy, and power.
Currently ranked in the Top 25 in the Health & Politics category on Substack, Anushay’s Point is for readers seeking clarity in a noisy media landscape and for those who want to understand not just what is happening in women’s health, but why it matters.
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