Half a century after the emergence of the women’s liberation movement, “the pill” remains ingrained in the iconography of second-wave […]
Wearable Immunity: Beauty Lessons from the Pockmarking Era
This pandemic’s “mask wars,” as with the 1918 flu pandemic and HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, have prompted reflections on how […]
Speaking Out: Joe Biden, Stuttering, and Disability Discrimination in the United States
In October 2020, CNN host Jake Tapper confronted Lara Trump for a video of what seemed to be her mocking […]
Irish Keens, Modern Grief, and the Digital Landscape of Mourning
In January 1833, an author known only as O’G published their musings on the Irish funeral cry, or caoine, in […]
Oscillating and Depreciating: Early Modern Spanish Views of Unsanctioned Female Healers
Antonio asks, “Do you believe that God will burn all of the sinners forever and ever when they die?” “Si,” […]
The Rejected Ones: Indian Foundlings in Colonial Portuguese Goa
In September of 1747, Rosa de Menezes went into labor in her home in the poorest quarter of Goa, the […]
Changing the Narrative: The Importance of Centering Choice
On September 14, Dawn Wooten, a former nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, filed a whistleblower […]
Rediscovering “Good” and “Bad” Heads in the Phrenological Present
It’s always a little exciting when your research area shows up in the news, especially when your work inclines to […]
Signing for Life: Deaf Gay Activists Navigate the AIDS Epidemic, 1986–1991
Before a small crowd of journalists at San Diego’s Point Loma Hospital, through sign language and their interpreters, John Canady’s […]
A Historic Intersex Awareness Day
This year’s Intersex Awareness Day, October 26, marked a historic pivot. A few days before, Boston Children’s Hospital revealed that […]
