Articles
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The Heifer and Its Lymph: The Animal Vaccine Establishment’s Register Book
Few people I know like working at the UK National Archives. They find it too…
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Reproductive Justice and Midwifery on the US-Mexico Border
On August 29th, Kevin Sieff of the Washington Post published an article about the citizenship…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A diet for old…
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When Pain is Political: Paulette Nardal and Black Women’s Citizenship in the French Empire
October 12 marks the 122nd anniversary of the birth of Martinican writer and intellectual Paulette…
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The Gendered Dynamics of Miscarriage
“I don’t like the use of ‘our.’ It’s ‘her’ body.” I was sitting in a…
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Mothers of Monsters
I am looking at an infant boy suspended in a jar of liquid. The preservative…
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The Privilege of Despair
A preternatural calm settled over me on Saturday afternoon as I heard the news of…
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Sunday Morning Donate
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very…
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Scheduling My Miscarriage
Scattered across my journals, you’ll find various iterations of multi-year plans, listing off months, allowing…
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Anatomy of Generation
Before the advent of modern technologies like the ultrasound, miscarried and aborted fetuses provided some…
