Articles
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Hygeia: Women in the Cemetery Landscape
We’ve all seen her. Hunched over the grave of an important poet. Standing meekly atop…
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Motherhood, Undone: A Review of Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women by Lyz Lenz
One evening in early April, after yet another day of sending my toddler daughter to…
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Artificial Wombs and Decriminalizing Abortion
After the announcement of the successful animal trials of a partial artificial womb in 2017,…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Dear Sirs. Fear of…
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The Collective Power of Our Abortion Stories
“I had an abortion in 1999.” So begins Annie Finch’s important new anthology, Choice Words:…
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The Politics of Method: An Interview with Henry Cowles
“The scientific method does not exist. But ‘the scientific method’ does.” So begins Henry M.…
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Breastfeeding During War
The fireworks began at 7 pm, and my anxiety, already made worse by sleep deprivation,…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Did my grandmother vote?…
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Burying the Dead, and Then Digging Them Up
About a week after my partner Clayton was murdered in 2015, I went back to…
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Woman in Focus: Jessie Tarbox Beals
Had she never laid her eyes on a camera, Jessie Tarbox Beals might have made…
