I. At sixteen,I keep my fingers crossedthe day I leave for school,first morning peehidden ina brown paper bag. In 1968 it takesa whole week for results,no simple wait to seeto see if a plastic stickchanges […]
The Writerly Sisterhood of Women’s Times
It was the 1970s, and I was very young and very lonely. I was pregnant with my second child. I remember that it was mid-summer, and that I was reading Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics with […]
My Daughters' Lives Too
We waited anxiously in the radiologist’s office. The technician moved the mouse’s arrow to the area of the baby that revealed a girl. We have two beautiful girls now, and during both pregnancies, I was […]
An Interview with No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes
No More Deaths, or No Mas Muertes, is an organization based in Tucson and Phoenix that supports migrant lives by scheduling “drop-offs” of water, food items, and other essentials along known migrant trails across southern […]
Concertinaed
The barriers betweenAmerica and Mexicoare woundwith concertina wire. Who named thoselethal twistsfor music?for elegant bellowsthat welcome supplehands and breathesweet trills. ~ Troops in the trenchesof WWl were assignedto wiring parties ––to unsnarlbarbed wire stashesand stretchthe […]
Vegan-Feminism Gone Wild: An Interview with Lisa Barca of Scarlet Rescue
Scarlet Rescue could be mistaken for the name of a no-kill shelter, but Lisa Barca’s mission is a bit more punk and a lot more entertaining. Lisa is a singer/songwriter and professor of literature who […]
Unintended Consequences of a Sexual Assault
I can no longer tolerate football. It’s like an allergy. I need to turn it off, leave the room immediately. This makes dating especially difficult in my stomping ground of New England #patsnation. Police stations […]
The Speculum: A Brief History of Medicine without Humanities
Consider the speculum. Roughly half of us are personally familiar with this device. At the same time, it’s likely that the other half do not even know of its existence. Even as a material object, […]
Historical Newspapers as Activist Resources
As you peruse your copy of the October 29, 1892 edition of The Washington Bee, a newspaper owned and operated by African Americans in the segregated world of the nation’s capital, you will notice an […]
This is how you grow in America
You are six years old when your mother asks you what you want to be when you grow up. You tell her you want to be a bus driver. You watch your mother’s face grow […]
