Articles
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Tracing the Red in “Redbone”: Colorism and Misogyny in Black History
“My peanut butter chocolate cake with Kool-Aid” – this line from the 2016 song “Redbone”…
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Walls of Moms: Maternal Bodies and Public Space in Portland and Argentina
On July 18, 2020 a group of mothers gathered on the streets of Portland. These…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
Contact your senators. Vote. May her memory be a revolution. Featured image caption: From left…
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Mind the Gap: Motivational Pressure and a Gendered Pandemic
In the midst of the pandemic, articles by journalists, public figures, and scholars on how…
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Cite My Name, Cite My Name
A couple years back, I was co-teaching a graduate course on gender history at the…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Elvis in the box.…
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Dead Babies in Boxes: Dealing with the Consequences of Interrupted Reproduction
One morning in June 2019, two city workers in Lyon, France, pulled a plastic bag…
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Why I Say “Black Lives Matter”
Two paragraphs in my forthcoming book, Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American…
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“All the World’s a Harem”: Perceptions of Masked Women during the 1918–1919 Flu Pandemic
Carlotta, with the drooping mouth; Esther, with the too-tilted nose, and Mary, the colleen with…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news No rest. Past vaccine…
