“I’ve been discriminated against because I am a woman, because I am black, because I am poor, because I am […]
Speak Up or Shut Up: The Legend of Barbara Jordan
Nearing the blessed close of what has been an absurd Presidential election cycle, one thing is clear: Barbara Jordan would […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Pet histories. The “animal turn” in history. What not […]
White Woman in Blackface as a Black Man in a White Coat? Scary.
Here’s a frank, perhaps surprising, and definitely disheartening admission: nothing you read here should be new to you. It’s been […]
Climate Change, Crack, and the Dream of “Population Engineering”
Want to do your part to fight climate change? Don’t reproduce. If you’re American, each kid you don’t have will […]
She Had Guts: Shirley Chisholm
The most important thing to know about the late Representative Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) is not that she was a Black […]
What Does It Mean to Say Millennials Are Having Less Sex?
The internet was abuzz this August with speculation about why Millennials have less sex than our elders did at our […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Operating on the dead. The haunting of Bunny Hall. […]
“I Know This Guy”: Humanity in Hamilton’s America
As those of you with more exciting social calendars than mine may not know, this past Friday PBS aired a […]
Are Women Human? A Historical Mystery with Medical Interruptions
In 1938, the British crime writer and theologian Dorothy Leigh Sayers addressed a women’s society on the simple question: “Are […]
