Somewhere in Missouri, Spring 2025: It’s morning, and I’m rushing to pack a stack of books, notes, and binders into […]
Last Resorts
In May 2014, Sandy Bem, a Cornell psychology professor known for her pioneering research on the social construction of gender, […]
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 […]
Beyond IVF: Eugenics and Reproductive Biotechnology
Access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) has emerged as a crucial issue in the 2024 election. While the Republican Party […]
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 […]
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 Strange Nostalgia of Childbirth
Nostalgia inflects modern childbirth. When I first became pregnant, back in August 2022, I joined a few Facebook groups dedicated […]
An Intimate Numbers Game: Histories of Quantifying Pelvic Floor Strength
The Elvie Trainer promises to “take the guesswork out of your workout.” Alongside other devices like the Elitone and the […]
On the Move: How Sports Clothes Became Fashion?
Even if you are not a gym rat or a sport enthusiast, it is almost impossible today to escape the […]
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 […]
