princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾

Founder of @shopafrology. I love our brains. Still for fun ✨

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

No because he deserved better!

[Meg @heirmeg]

rip pop smoke 😩

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

Me

[badgalriri pics ♡ @RihannaHDR]

the scan 😭

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

I hate that that’s the reputation ☹️

[Nicole ✨ @BombshellCole]

They shooting the messenger, but she ain’t wrong. Dating and sex were heavily demonized in a lot of our homes. We were told to stay away from boys and focus on school. The problem is that relationships are a skill set too and many Black women were prepared for careers but left to figure out dating, boundaries, and healthy partnership on our own.

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

Biochem

[• @yducknow]

How fast I be running back to question 2 after question 5 snitches on the answer

[🏖️ @plugdontmiss]

Me hitting “notify anyway” when their do not disturb is on

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

A medical acceptance without having applied to medical school yet 😂

[solé @layxsnv]

i be checking my emails everyday waiting for some life changing shit 😭😩

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

This is very real!

[Benz Punani, Esq. @DopeLikeLia]

Did a career day at an elementary school and a bunch of Black kids pulled me over and said that they’ve never seen a black lawyer before and didn’t know it was possible until now. I could actually cry rn lmao

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

Literally

[BPB🕷️ @SlimThaGoddess_]

everybody’s losing their fucking mind. lemme join

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

Follow your heart but take your brain with you!

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

@DiaryOfKeysus This whole scene was just too funny 😭

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

Me after my biochem final

[k a r y. @itsKARY_]

*slams laptop until Tuesday*

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

That’s probably a cool experience. Never had to wear my regalia on public transportation but for everyone that has 🫡

[ami @jomarchjr]

the best part about graduating in nyc is wearing your regalia on public transportation and everyone congratulating you and asking what you studied

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

😂😂😂

[k a r y. @itsKARY_]

AKA “wig”

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOO I’m in here hollering!

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

Hey pretty 🦄🩷

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

Black women!!!!

[BRE @brebreromi]

dedicated a year to reengineering the modern claw clip

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

I was diagnosed in 2019 and 2025 was the first time I thought about going to an endocrinologist about it. I’m so happy to know that even though there is more work to be done, we’re not in the same place we were in 2019 :) this is big!!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix.

What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses.

The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there.

The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body.

PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%.

A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

@currygoatroti Literally my dad

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

I think people honestly lack critical thinking skills. It genuinely scares me

[kimberly. @problemsthots]

if you talked about how boston richey was laid up with a minor even just 2 years ago on here, it was a hoard of birds that would tell you to mind your business lol.

[princess of toronto, MS 🫶🏾 @ssshands]

I know that’s right!