A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of blood. Jack the Ripper outdone. The […]
I Am a Professor in a Movie
Inspired by the “I am a ____ in a movie” phenomenon on Twitter where people in different professions tweeted the […]
Feeling Grief: On Emotions in the Archive of Enslavement
In September, when an archivist at Fisk University asked me to help identify a ten-page manuscript from 1776 Saint-Domingue, my […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Demented, happy, and useful. Acid and sexual psychonauts. How […]
Hallmark Christmas Movies: Guilty Pleasure or Feminist Rallying Cry?
A woman arrives in a small American town at Christmas time. Possibly her car has broken down, or she’s there […]
My So-Called Life: Angela Chase, Body Image, and Teen Angst
In August 1994, ABC aired the pilot episode of My So-Called Life, and for the first time I felt that […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Joy riders of India. The archive of hate. Beautiful […]
Lillie Western, Banjo Queen
It should come as no surprise that the Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists list includes only two women, Bonnie Raitt […]
Review of Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
My Testimony I always wanted a really sexy testimony. That’s not the word I would have used, of course. Growing […]
If You See Something, Say Something: Imperial Origins of White Women’s Modern Racial Profiling
In 2018, confrontations between white women and people of color in the United States have become viral news bytes emblematic […]
