Articles
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Jessie Mitchell’s Mother
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news 15 centuries-old board games.…
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If You’re Not a Jerk, Then I’m Not Disabled
This is my fantasy: I’m standing at the Main Street corner in my little New…
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Satan’s Fortress: Christianity, Sex, and Josh Duggar
When I was 18, I attended a large gathering of evangelical Christians, just as I…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
. . . is on vacation. See you next week!
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Big Promises, Bigger Failures: When Public Education Makes You Sick
Promises, promises… We take it as a given that schooling is good for us, that…
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How Dusty are Your Baseboards?: The Politics of Domestic Labor
Recently I attended a bridal shower that provided a rare occasion for chatting with girlfriends…
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Surviving While Black in America: A Review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
One of the products of Americans’ growing consciousness around racism and the police killings of…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A social history of…
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Teaching Sexuality, Gender, and Race in Middle School
“So what do you do?” We all have asked this familiar question while making small…