Articles
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Seeing Pregnant People: History, Empathy, and Reproductive Politics
On November 22, 1863, New Yorker Charles F. Robertson testified in a deposition that, “About…
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The Good Friday Abortion Sermon; or, Why I Study Abortion History
Sometime around 2012, at a Good Friday service at the church my family had belonged…
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Why We Should Recognize Dr. Katharine Bement Davis Alongside Dr. Alfred Kinsey as a Pioneering Sex Researcher
In 1917, when Dr. Katharine Bement Davis accepted philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s invitation to…
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The Rise of ADHD
Are you easily distracted? Forget where you left your phone or your keys? Do you…
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Bonding the Racial Gap in Oral Health and Care
The American healthcare system has long impacted people of color disproportionately, providing them with second-rate…
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A Year of Personal Growth: My First Year with Hearing Loss
Growth is not always linear. My onset of unilateral idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss (also known…
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The Agency of the Irresponsible
Like many faculty at state universities, the beginning of this school year brings me…
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“Women Cry – Men Swear”: Gender and Stuttering in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
Speech specialist Ernest Tompkins was not alone in thinking that he had figured out what…
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15 Seconds to Illness: How TikTok is Contributing to an Eating Disorder Epidemic
Today, the idea that social media has a great effect on mental health is hardly…
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What Britney Spears’s Forced IUD Can Teach Us About Women’s History
When Britney Spears announced that she was forced to use long-term birth control in the…
