Articles
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Training Future Wives and Mothers: Vocational Education and Assimilation at the Stewart Indian School
In 1879, the US government launched an expansive effort to restructure Indigenous lives by enrolling…
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How Perceived Racial Differences Created a Crisis in Black Women’s Healthcare
In 2016, a black baby born in Charlottesville, Virginia, was almost ten times more likely…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Shutting down Hawai‘i. The…
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The Lone Woman of Kokura
She was alone. The men and women of the domain were all gone. In their…
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¡Viva the Queer Zapata! The Sexual Politics of Defining Mexican Identity and Icons in Fabián Cháirez’s “La Revolución”
Fabián Cháirez’s painting “La Revolución,” part of the current exhibition, “Emiliano. Zapata después de Zapata”…
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Joking in the Time of Pandemic: The 1889–92 Flu and 2020 COVID-19
As we see with COVID-19, the darkest periods in history expose the best — and…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Managing melancholy. A history…
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Between a Soft Rock and a Hard Place: A Review of Karen Tongson’s Why Karen Carpenter Matters
Early in her new book Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson reports that a karaoke…
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An Imperfect Abortion Story
It’s probably not normal to fantasize about a better, less complicated abortion story, but since…
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Plague in the Age of Twitter
I’ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter over the past week. Some evenings,…
