Empowering those with fibroids to be fearless
We're so excited for The White Dress Project's 2024 Empowerment Experience - a celebration of our 10-year Anniversary and a decade of remarkable progress, unwavering support, and monumental achievements. Together, we've cultivated a vibrant community, standing in solidarity and driving legislative changes to ensure the voices of women with fibroids are heard and their needs addressed.
What are fibroids?
Browse our articles and videos to learn more. Be informed and know your condition!
Our mission:
to galvanize support and promote national awareness about the fibroid epidemic among people domestically and globally through education, research, and advocacy.
Why the white dress?
By educating people about fibroids, treatment options, and sharing our stories, we hope to embolden everyone to wear white!
As Black Maternal Health Week continues, followed by National Infertility Awareness, next week, let us remember the women who lost their lives in childbirth as well as those who lost their lives due to not being seen or heard.
Join TWDP next Tuesday, April 23rd @ 7:00pm as we’ll be hosting a safe space discussion that will focus on Understanding the Connection between Fibroids, Cervical Cancer and Maternal Health.
What the F? Fibroid Research Forum
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What the F? Fibroid Forum: Fibroids and Lifestyle Approaches
Fibroid treatment goes beyond traditional medicine. Join us as we explore current and ongoing research regarding lifestyle changes to positively support your fibroid journey!
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RECORDING AVAILABLE! What the F? Fibroid Forum: Uterine Fibroid Embolization Treatment
Fact vs Fiction: Uterine Fibroid Embolization Treatment
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RECORDING AVAILABLE! What the F? Fibroid Forum: Fibroids and Fertility
How do Fibroids affect my fertility?
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RECORDING AVAILABLE! What the F? Fibroid Forum: Fibroids and Prevention
Can I prevent Fibroids?
Check out our Uterine Fibroids Toolkit in partnership with Society for Women’s Health Research:
What you need to know now about fibroids
In the News
The White Dress Project supports the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Uterine Fibroid Research and Education Act 2021, which will provide $150M to the National Institute of Health to address the fibroids public health crisis.
Contact your Senators and representatives and ask them to cosponsor the bill. Fill out this form
In the News
New Medical Options For Uterine Fibroids Include Radio Frequency Ablation, New Drugs
The White Dress Project’s Founder, Tanika Gray Valbrun, talks to CBS New York about her personal journey with fibroids.
In the News
Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Shelley Capito (R-WV) introduced the Senate companion bill to the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Uterine Fibroid Research and Education Act of 2021, legislation that would appropriate $30 million to the National Institutes of Health for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 and establish a research database for treatment of fibroids. Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY) introduced the House legislation in March 2021.
Meet Your Match!
Everyone needs a support system when they are living with fibroids. White Dress Cares is a peer-to-peer network, offering support for those managing life with fibroids. Since our launch in July, we've matched over 75 fibroid warriors with others who are sharing a similar journey. Sign up today to get matched!
We are Louder than Fibroids!
We all have a story and it is important for us to share our journeys with one another. By making connections with others that are going through the same struggles, fibroid survivors find comfort and strength in this community that is united through shared experiences and a shared vision of hope that we will break down the walls of silence and together be louder than fibroids.
Celebrating milestones
Patient Warrior
When the doctor becomes the patient
No more suffering in silence
Our Impact
The organization has created and sustained a platform for awareness and education about uterine fibroids.
The White Dress Project has hosted educational community events around the country to bring accurate information about fibroids to women.
Through these efforts, we have reached over 120,000 women since the inception of the organization in 2014.
We have taken our awareness efforts to the halls of Congress and local legislative bodies across the country earning July's official designation as Fibroid Awareness Month in several cities and in the U.S. House of Representatives.
“To my fibroid survivors and warriors....keep pushing, keep fighting, and keep believing.”
Follow our journey.
