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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

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Just about a week out from the deadline!!!

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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 🗃️

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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)

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

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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

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Cool collection of public heath posters

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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 🗃️

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

I hear this a lot here in Texas.

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Wow! 😒

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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:

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

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

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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.)

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"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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🎉🎉🎉

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Shocked, I tell you! Completely shocked!

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**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….

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

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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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📌

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Thems the rules! #proofofcat

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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!

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@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...

submitted 136 days ago • 1 comment