Articles
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Bodies in Doubt, A New and Expanded Edition: An Interview with Elizabeth Reis
I first met Elizabeth Reis at a conference about intersex several years ago, and we…
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Informed Transitions
Transitions can be hard, especially when one has spent decades teetering on shifting sand. With my…
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Learning What We Do Not Know: The History and Experience of Menopause
In January 2021, I willingly underwent a procedure to implant testosterone pellets into the flesh…
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Manhood, Madness, and Moonshine
In November 2015, Princeton University economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case published a startling report.…
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Acting Up and Fighting Back: Stories of ACT UP
Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993…
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Will We Ever “Have it All”? Examining the Career Woman of the 1980s and in the COVID Era
The US government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis has illustrated just how divided the country…
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“Who Cares?”: A Conversation on Murder and Women with Katherine Dykstra
Katherine Dykstra’s What Happened to Paula: On the Death of an American Girl is much…
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When Abortion Was a Necessary Sin
Anyone tempted to make facile arguments about abortion politics, on either side of the aisle,…
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Narrative Privilege and the Power of Pose
This post contains spoilers for the full series of Pose, including the series finale. Dorian…
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Peering Into Windows and Wombs: Reflections on SB 8
I thought about Dr. Curtis Boyd when I heard that the Supreme Court greenlit Texas’s…
