Anyone who is even vaguely familiar with contemporary American culture likely understands that female fertility has been a hotly contested, […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The virginity disease. Was Dr. Asperger a Nazi? Medicines […]
Clio Reads: A Review of It Hurts Down There: The Bodily Imaginaries Of Female Genital Pain
“Female genital pain” is an umbrella term that encompasses a range of often miserable, frequently perplexing conditions that render women’s […]
El Chapo, Sean Penn, and the Violence of Celebrity
Well Rolling Stone, you’ve done it again. Your feigned naiveté combined with your lack of journalistic integrity has propelled you […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The fit flapper. Slaying the rubella dragon. Subversive flour […]
The Young and the Gangrenous
Bandages, Blood, and Bickering, Oh My! A Civil War is brewing within the walls of Mansion House Hospital, the setting […]
Of Rifles and Responsibility: How Can We Speak to Each Other Across the Gun Control Divide?
As a kid, I loved shooting a rifle with my uncle, out back at my grandmother’s farmhouse. My dad and […]
Love, Death, and Human Rights: A View from Rio de Janeiro
My partner Clayton was murdered while riding his motorcycle home from work on April 28, 2015. He was followed by […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The lesbian gaze of “Carol.” “Terrorism” in the Early […]
Sex and Gender in a Petri Dish
The HeLa cell line, infamously derived in 1951 from the tumor of Henrietta Lacks, was cultured and immortalized to provide […]
