For anyone who hasn’t been paying attention to the international news, Brazil — and its Olympic city of Rio de […]
Report from Pride: LGBT History Is (Not Yet) American History
Last June I participated in the annual Pride March in New York City, the biggest celebration of LGBT pride in the […]
A Declaration of Conscience: Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995)
One popular critique of Hillary Clinton, dating back to the beginning of her political career, is that she would never […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A brief history of bloodletting. A tribute to the […]
We Need to Talk About Chikungunya
My friend from Rio de Janeiro got chikungunya virus in April. First she came down with a high fever. Soon […]
“Ain’t No Bitches Gonna Hunt No Ghosts”
2016 is Terrible, So Go Watch Ghostbusters, Laugh, and Let Feminism Save Us All Dear Ghostbuster boys. Sit down and […]
Lady Presidential Candidates: Belva Lockwood (1830-1917)
Oh, Hillary. What a bitch. A liar. A cheat. A man-hater. A one-percenter. The Donald most definitely does NOT rate […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Syphilis onstage. The Wonder in Us, 1921. Girl mayors […]
The Brexit and Women’s Rights in the UK
Although women comprise the majority of voters in the UK, they were noticeably absent in the debates and discussions surrounding […]
Dispatches from Rio: Rape in Rio de Janeiro
This is the first of several pieces we will run about the city of Rio de Janeiro in the lead-up […]
