Whether you’ve seen The Hairpin’s 2011 “Women Laughing Alone with Salad,” or not, you’re in for a treat. Emily Contois […]
Vanguard: The Fights that Connect Black Women Activists across More Than Two Centuries
My undergraduate and MA adviser, Dr. Angela Howard, argued that women across time and space often have remarkably similar experiences […]
In God’s Own Image: LGBT+ Community History at Lipscomb University
Growing up queer in evangelical Christian Southern culture is a unique experience. Having attended the same Christian K–12 school my […]
Caring for the Past and Present Patient: The Need for Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Adolescents
COVID-19 has produced fear, social strain, and mental health deterioration across the globe. The indelible marks left by the pandemic […]
Have Crisis, Feed Kids
“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 […]
