On June 12 of this year, a lone gunman entered Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL, and carried out […]
Feminist Bodies, Feminist Selves
I have never known a person who was 100% content with everything about their body, 100% of the time. The […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The pigeon cure. Inventing the beach. The shark panic […]
“Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Girls and Sex (But Really Need to Ask)”: Peggy Orenstein’s Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
In American media and pop culture, there is a constant barrage of fear and panic about teens, especially girls, and […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Wretched strumpets. Whiskey and slavery. Queering oral history. Death by […]
A Childless Historian of Children: The Choice Not to Parent
I am a historian of women, sexuality, medicine, and childhood. As I write my dissertation on the history of sex […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of Father’s Day. Ether as a recreational […]
So Much To be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
When Barbara Brenner was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, friends recommended that she read Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals. […]
More Than Blood
We awoke to news of the carnage in Orlando. I had slept in — the first long, good night’s sleep […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The anatomical Venus. Feck! A history of swearing. The […]
