The American healthcare system has long impacted people of color disproportionately, providing them with second-rate care that, in itself, is […]
A Year of Personal Growth: My First Year with Hearing Loss
Growth is not always linear. My onset of unilateral idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss (also known as sudden, one-sided inner-ear hearing […]
15 Seconds to Illness: How TikTok is Contributing to an Eating Disorder Epidemic
Today, the idea that social media has a great effect on mental health is hardly a revelation. As more individuals […]
The Case for Full Bodily Autonomy in Adolescent Reproductive Health Care
Are adolescents mature enough to make their own decisions when it comes to their medical care? If so, should those […]
Manslaughter or Necessary Operation? Abortion and Murder in Early 20th-Century Missouri
In April 2021, I was part of an exciting experimental conference, hosted by Dr. Courtney Thompson through Mississippi State University: […]
Blood, Teeth, and Fire: A Dispatch from Cincinnati, 1844
This is a story about walking between worlds. It happens now (more or less; December 2020) and also then (October […]
Whale, Actually
Across the cover of the worn brown file, now property of the British National Archives, someone had written “Rations and […]
Finding Friendship and Frustration in the Archive of an Institution for the “Feebleminded”
The methodology proposed by “Archival Kismet” is to go where the archive leads you (while bearing in mind, of course, […]
Archival Kismet: A Manifesto
In a fit of spring-cleaning early last year, my mother sent me a series of boxes filled with various mementos […]
The Forgotten: Adults with Developmental Disabilities During COVID-19
“It’s time to put on hand sanitizer, Beth*,” I say as we get back in the car after visiting the […]
