Katherine St Arnaud

Katherine St Arnaud

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Katherine St Arnaud is an MA student at the University of Victoria. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in History with Honours at Simon Fraser University in 2020. Her current research project for her thesis investigates the social networks of lay abortionists and their clients, as well how the criminal justice system treated lay abortionists as compared to doctors who performed abortions.

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“Help, I’m Living in My Research!”: Writing on Abortion in a Post-Roe World

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In 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, my friend and I were in the midst of writing our honors theses, she on smallpox vaccine hesitancy among the working class and I on female emancipation in Weimar Germany. We would jokingly say “Help, I’m living in my research!” on a regular basis.[1] We drew connections… Read more →