“Here is public health’s bind,” wrote science journalist Ed Yong recently in The Atlantic: “Though it is so fundamental that […]
How To Be a Reproductive Justice Clinic Escort
On a hot Saturday morning in August 2018, I drove to my first clinic escorting shift. Earlier that week, I […]
Pandemic Parenting and the Lessons of Nineteenth-Century Romantic Friendship
When Mathilde Franziska Anneke and Mary Booth found their lives crumbling in 1860, they packed up their three youngest children […]
Bodies in Doubt, A New and Expanded Edition: An Interview with Elizabeth Reis
I first met Elizabeth Reis at a conference about intersex several years ago, and we became fast friends. Lizzie served […]
Informed Transitions
Transitions can be hard, especially when one has spent decades teetering on shifting sand. With my menopause comes an emptying nest […]
Learning What We Do Not Know: The History and Experience of Menopause
In January 2021, I willingly underwent a procedure to implant testosterone pellets into the flesh at my hip. I had […]
Manhood, Madness, and Moonshine
In November 2015, Princeton University economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case published a startling report. Among 45 to 54 year […]
Acting Up and Fighting Back: Stories of ACT UP
Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 and Peter Staley’s memoir, Never […]
Will We Ever “Have it All”? Examining the Career Woman of the 1980s and in the COVID Era
The US government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis has illustrated just how divided the country has become on the topic […]
“Who Cares?”: A Conversation on Murder and Women with Katherine Dykstra
Katherine Dykstra’s What Happened to Paula: On the Death of an American Girl is much more than a book about […]
