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It’s (Not) in Your Head: When Bodies Defy Logic
“If you say too little they can’t help you, and if they say too much…
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The Stain of Slavery is Silencing Sexual Violence Against Black and Brown Women
I am an American woman who has never experienced sexual assault, rape, or coercion. Bully…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Disability, race, and art.…
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Lizards and the Idea of Mexico
In the summer of 1782, Don Juan de Luna, a respected elder citizen of the…
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“No-Tell Motels”: Abortion in Pre-Roe South Carolina
“Charleston was the place to come before Roe v. Wade, for abortions.” Reminiscing about illegal…
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It’s Not You, It’s Me: #MeToo in Academia
It was Friday, and I was indulging myself at the prepared foods bar at Whole…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The testosterone myth. Rube…
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New Medical Tourism on St. Kitts
The late William Halford of Southern Illinois University’s School of Medicine spent his life developing…
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Remembering the Mothers of Gynecology: Deirdre Cooper Owens’ Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Antebellum physician James Marion Sims has been in the news quite a bit lately as…
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Understanding My Past after #MeToo
[gblockquote source=”Kyle Stephens (survivor of Dr. Larry Nassar)”]Little girls don’t stay little forever. They grow…