Andrew Leland’s 2023 book The Country of the Blind, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is an absorbing exploration of […]
Silenced Suffering: The Historical and Contemporary Plight of Black Women with Uterine Fibroids
Fibroid Awareness Month – an annual observance to educate, inform, and raise awareness about uterine fibroids is observed annually in […]
Clio in Motion
It’s not fitness. It’s life. This is a marketing slogan of a high-end fitness center where I have worked as […]
The Eternal Aesthetics of Youth
Originally published at Ultraphysical. A few months ago, days ahead of my 45th birthday, I reflexively clicked on a suggested […]
Y’all Means All: Past and Present LGBTQ+ Rights in the South
While major metropolitan areas, such as New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, are commonly thought of as hubs […]
The Labor of Love: Transforming Dementia Research With Alexandre Baril and Marjorie Silverman
From intersex Revolutionary War generals to Indigenous identities that predate colonization, transgender and non-binary people have a long and storied […]
Personhood Politics: Decoding Alabama’s Reproductive Discourse
In 2020, several frozen embryos were accidentally destroyed in a Mobile, Alabama clinic. This event catalyzed numerous lawsuits and eventually […]
The Strange Nostalgia of Childbirth
Nostalgia inflects modern childbirth. When I first became pregnant, back in August 2022, I joined a few Facebook groups dedicated […]
It’s Wonderful How Ice Can Be So Warm
“It is a pleasure to the real lover of nature to give winter all the glory he can.” – Dorothy […]
Are We Becoming Ivan Drago? Analyzing Today’s Fitness Tech through Rocky IV
In Rocky IV (1985), American Rocky Balboa fights the USSR’s Ivan Drago in a boxing match that animates Cold War […]
