In the United States, maternal health has aptly been regarded as “in crisis.” However, the person beyond the patient – […]
Community Organizing for Health Justice: Reproductive Justice Activism and the Coalition to Fight Infant Mortality
An enduring struggle for communities of color, infant mortality is a major issue especially for pregnant Black women and their […]
Texas A&M, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Academic Common Sense
I can’t believe I’m writing this, but at least it keeps my fingers on the keys, not scratching my head […]
“Working for Our Lives:” How One Colorado Women’s Clinic Redefined Healthcare Amid Conservative Backlash.
In 2022 the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, putting safe and legal abortion on the chopping block around the […]
Beauty, Knowledge, Patriarchy, Power: A Book Review of Jill Burke’s How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Somewhere in Missouri, Spring 2025: It’s morning, and I’m rushing to pack a stack of books, notes, and binders into […]
Is it Time to Abandon Motherhood? An Interview with Alex Bollen.
Alex Bollen, a UK-based postnatal practitioner, has recently published her first book, Motherdom: Breaking Free from Bad Science and Good […]
Politics in Practice: A Review of Judith A. Houck, Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement (U Chicago Press, 2024)
In Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement (University of Chicago Press, 2024) Judith A. Houck provides a […]
Feminism in the Time of the Technological Womb
The artificial womb. The embryo outside the mother. Ectogenesis, if we’re being technical. I was first exposed to this exploratory […]
Man vs. Bear? TikTok as a Platform for Contemporary Feminist Consciousness Raising
Trigger Warning: Mention of gender-based violence In the spring of 2024, millions of TikTok users weighed in on a seemingly […]
Interview with Elizabeth Garner Masarik on her book, The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State (University of Georgia Press, 2024)
I got the chance to speak with historian Elizabeth Garner Masarik about her new book The Sentimental State: How Women-Led […]
