The year 2020 marks one of those global tipping points – time divided into pre-COVID and the promise of after […]
Post-Pandemic Architecture Needs to Be Healthier
As an architecture student, I’d normally be building a model in my studio on campus right now. Instead, six months […]
Bearing the Capitalist Economy: A Review of Alexandra J. Finley’s An Intimate Economy
The historiography of women’s lives under and role in slavery and the slave trade has changed substantially in the recent […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news How do pandemics end? When Japan reinvented filmmaking. How […]
Creating Community and Finding Connection: A Black Nurse’s Experience in Vietnam, 1966–67
Nobody wanted Elizabeth Allen in Vietnam. From her master’s advisor who questioned why on earth she would want to enlist […]
What About Men’s Reproductive Health?
In her latest book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health, sociologist Rene Almeling asks why all the public […]
The Problem with Pandemic Pay
Since March, my mother has worked twelve- to fourteen-hour days, seven days a week, processing thousands of COVID-19 tests. As […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The deadly story of poison. Best practices in period […]
Beyond Florence: Valuing Nurses in the History of Health Care
Before COVID-19 was even a blip on the horizon, the World Health Organization had declared 2020 the Year of the […]
Ear Trumpets and Archives: An Interview with Jaipreet Virdi about Hearing Happiness
Thank you so much for this book. We’ve both been teaching on Technology & Disability for a few years now, […]
