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midwifehistory.bsky.social
Midwife and historian of medicine| reproductive justice| PhD #uclahist | asst prof #shsu_hist. opinions my own Book in-progress: “Reproducing Midwives in France & the Atlantic” Cat lover and bibliophile
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TOMORROW!!!! Register for Dr. Ragab's talk here: tinyurl.com/2m2ftb9p

Just about a week out from the deadline!!!

Excited to announce our speaker line for this semester! All events are virtual and in-person and open to the public! www.shsu.edu/medhealthevents #histmed #medicalhumanities 🗃️

Conditions: history of medicine topic, Europe or 'Europe and the wider world', published 2023-24, any language. 3000 euro prize is worth a submission! 🗃️ (do NOT rely on your publisher to do this for you)

Thank you, Tricia! And thank you, Ria, for the nudge!

Please circulate this CfP! We are inviting abstract submissions for our "NEH Medical Humanities" Conference October 2-3, 2025 at Sam Houston State University. No registration fees for any attendees. Submit abstracts by February 1st for consideration. 🗃️ #histmed #Historysky #histSTM #skystorians

Cool collection of public heath posters

Im re-envisioning my "Poxes and Plagues" syllabus to be more methodologically organized (rather than thematic). Any suggestions of history of disease/epidemic work that uses gender as a category of analysis? #skytorians 🗃️

I hear this a lot here in Texas.

Wow! 😒

Thank you to our beloved Gustavo Arellano, for honoring the passing of Dolores Madrigal in the LA Times. Dolores was the lead plaintiff in the class action lawsuit against County-USC where more than 200 Mexican American women were forcibly sterilized in the 1960s and 70s:

For new folks - the "What's History" Feed is a great way to find other historians and conversations about history. To post to the list, contact @rauchway.bsky.social to be added to the list, and then include either #skystorians or 🗃️ to your post. erauchway.github.io/posts/bsky/ #earlymodern

Made some cranberry rosemary scones. They are delish!!!

I'm Scottie and I'm smart but lazy. (Said to me by a high school teacher who never actually taught me how to write an essay but valued my participation in class. Little did he know I had spent weeks working on that paper! Taught me how important self-reflection is for teachers.)

"By perpetuating unscientific racial sorting, medical professionals are failing patients—and medicine’s oath to “do no harm.”" www.sapiens.org/biology/medi...

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Shocked, I tell you! Completely shocked!

**mantra to self** I WILL mobilize my political anxiety to write my book, I WILL mobilize my political anxiety to write my book, I WILL mobilize my political anxiety to write my book, I WILL mobilize my political anxiety to write my book….

Did you know that if you put a 🗃️ in your post it automatically pulls your post into the What’s History feed? #skystorians

Ha! Love that in the list of possible feeds, pics of cats is WAY higher than dogs! (Don’t worry, I don’t actually dislike dogs, just absolutely love cats)

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Thems the rules! #proofofcat

I’m brand new here and I really only had two concerns in transitioning over….first, would I find all the cool #histmed peeps easily and second are the men’s wear guy and Jorts the cat on here? Thanks @jackiantonovich.bsky.social for helping with the first!

@leahredmondchang.bsky.social: "there are many ways to suffer in pregnancy, many ways a pregnancy can kill. This is why the abortion question isn’t really about birth control - it’s about women’s healthcare. That is, 1/n open.substack.com/pub/leahredm...