“His BMI is on the high side of normal. See?” The pediatrician showed me a chart. “This is something we […]
“Me Before You”: Hollywood’s Disability Problem & the Perils of Assisted Suicide
The recent movie Me Before You, based on the best-selling book by Jojo Moyes, has been marketed as the tearjerker romance […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The fever of 1721. Leprosy in 1930s India. Ireland’s […]
Blood and Tears in Orlando
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 […]
