Do genetics or environmental factors determine one’s gender identity? The question may seem a distinctly modern one. Indeed, premodern people […]
Incarcerating Eve: Women’s Health “Care” in Prisons and Jails
In Season 4 of the hit Netflix original Orange is the New Black, we get a glimpse into the healthcare […]
Eggsploitation Cracked Open
“What’s a few eggs between friends?” Many egg donation advertisements, like the examples here, suggest that it’s nothing at all! […]
“Witness the ‘Wall of Genitals’”: Anatomical Display at Brooklyn’s House of Wax
Located in the lobby of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Brooklyn, the House of Wax is a dimly lit bar […]
Nursing Clio Stands with Equality
Some of our favorite photos from the NC Editors of the 1-22-2017 Women’s March on Washington and other cities.
Housewives Against Dictatorship: The Bolivian Hunger Strike of 1978
On December 28, 1977 four women and fourteen children arrived at the offices of Archbishop Nelson Manrique in La Paz, […]
Kids and Science: An Interview with Rebecca Onion
Rebecca Onion is perhaps best known to our readers as a staff writer at Slate, where she started The Vault […]
Learning to Love Science: Rebecca Onion’s Innocent Experiments and the History of an American Cultural Tradition
As a child, did your parents encourage you to participate in a science fair? Perhaps you received a chemistry set […]
The Black Panthers’ and Tom Hayden’s Lessons to the White Left in an Age of Trump
I often receive inquiries from white and non-black folks about how they can get involved in anti-racist organizing, especially after […]
On Feeding My Husband with Cancer
I am both a historian of medicine and a practicing physician. This sometimes throws into sharp relief how different medicine […]
