I start with a confession. In 2018, I wrote a piece for Nursing Clio titled “It’s Not You, It’s Me: […]
Riding Uphill: Challenging Gender Superiority in Competitive Cycling
For 118 years, the Paris Roubaix bicycle race has challenged the most skilled riders from around the globe. Going from […]
Will We Ever “Have it All”? Examining the Career Woman of the 1980s and in the COVID Era
The US government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis has illustrated just how divided the country has become on the topic […]
Working Mothers
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed racial and class inequities in brutal ways. Gone are the early days when politicians might […]
Mind the Gap: Motivational Pressure and a Gendered Pandemic
In the midst of the pandemic, articles by journalists, public figures, and scholars on how to capitalize on time spent […]
Cite My Name, Cite My Name
A couple years back, I was co-teaching a graduate course on gender history at the University of Edinburgh. I was […]
Fight Cancer like a Feminist
On May 2, 2018, I was coming out of anesthesia from an emergency appendectomy when I learned I might have […]
Mokgadi Caster Semenya v. The Patriarchy and its IAAF Minions
I am a woman and I am a world-class athlete. The IAAF will not drug me or stop me from […]
Threatening the Gender Hierarchy in Women’s Sport
Critics of South African track star Caster Semenya warn that her continued participation in women’s track and field without taking […]
This is Not a Culture of Life, This is a Culture of Un-Death
Last week at a Vatican conference on abortion, Pope Francis “argued that children who were not expected to live long […]
