At the end of February, President Trump renamed the council that supports American physical fitness as the President’s Council on […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The beautiful brain. Indispensable midwives? Scooby Doo in the […]
Prison Cells and Pretty Walls: Gender Coding and American Schools
A few months ago, I was scrolling through Twitter and saw a conversation about redesigning classroom spaces and a phrase […]
The Obstetrician Who Cried “White Privilege”
In December of 2016, I wrote an essay for Nursing Clio called Nurse-Midwives are With Women, Walking a Middle Path […]
Why It’s Bad When It’s “Not That Bad”
When then-Senator Al Franken was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women this past November, I braced myself for the […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of hair dye. An obit you must […]
Hospital Confinement: From the 19th Century to the 21st
Last summer I had a very different experience of childbirth than most women. I was not entirely sure what to […]
Are Our Genes Really Our Fate? DNA’s Visual Culture and the Construction of Genetic Truth
The direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andme has recently been described by journalist Erika Check Hayden as a “unicorn.”1 For Hayden, […]
“Weaponized Babies”; or, Damn, Why Didn’t I Think of Using That Term?
News that Senator Tammy Duckworth brought her baby to the Senate floor for a vote thrilled some and infuriated others. […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news What’s a museum? How to woo a suffragist. The […]
