Articles
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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…
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Parenting in Academia: New Mom + Nursing + Academic Conference = Weekend in Hell
Anyone who is a mom and an academic has one of these stories of academic…
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Yes, We Should Tell about our Miscarriages on Facebook
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg joyfully announced on Facebook that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan,…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Bathing machines of the…
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Obergefell v. Hodges and the Legacy of AIDS
So, yeah… gay marriage is legal now. It’s kind of a big deal. That was…
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Friday Night Rights: Abortion in Small-Town Texas
Two recent events have made me return to my favorite TV show of all time,…
