# @oberlincollege on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C2iJ7-2LXxP
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/26215797-oberlincollege-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-01-25T18:41:46.000+00:00

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Noa Fleischacker ’15 and Sarah Minion ’17 are the co-founders of Tight Lipped, an organization created to call attention to chronic vulvovaginal pain—an umbrella term to describe conditions that can cause things such as vulvar burning and itching, UTI-like symptoms, and pain when sitting. Using the grassroots community organizing skills they first honed as students at Oberlin, Fleischacker and Minion are working with universities, doctors, health care experts, and even government officials to ensure the medical community takes these conditions—and the patients who live with them—more seriously.

“Everything that we do is in service to grassroots organizing,” Fleischacker says. “How do we actually make changes to hospital systems, research funding, and treatment options? These are all deeper systemic issues. Some of the organizations and people who have worked on this before us are creating support groups. But we’re explicitly like, ‘Yes, we want to build community and support each other—and none of this is going to change until we make deeper systemic change.’”

In a feature from the fall 2023 issue of the Oberlin Alumni Magazine by Jeff Hagan ’86, Fleischacker and Minion share Tight Lipped’s story and incredible impact to date. Find it at the link in bio.

Photo courtesy of Noa Fleischacker

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