“He has been dumped.” Mrs. van Melsen tells me these words as we look down at the inscription on the […]
The Heifer and Its Lymph: The Animal Vaccine Establishment’s Register Book
Few people I know like working at the UK National Archives. They find it too impersonal, too frigid, too strict. […]
Reproductive Justice and Midwifery on the US-Mexico Border
On August 29th, Kevin Sieff of the Washington Post published an article about the citizenship status of Americans born near […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A diet for old age. The sensory history of […]
When Pain is Political: Paulette Nardal and Black Women’s Citizenship in the French Empire
October 12 marks the 122nd anniversary of the birth of Martinican writer and intellectual Paulette Nardal. It also marks 79 […]
The Gendered Dynamics of Miscarriage
“I don’t like the use of ‘our.’ It’s ‘her’ body.” I was sitting in a small meeting room in the […]
Mothers of Monsters
I am looking at an infant boy suspended in a jar of liquid. The preservative fluid has kept the boy’s […]
The Privilege of Despair
A preternatural calm settled over me on Saturday afternoon as I heard the news of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the […]
Sunday Morning Donate
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And […]
Scheduling My Miscarriage
Scattered across my journals, you’ll find various iterations of multi-year plans, listing off months, allowing me to plan my way […]
