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swithycombe.bsky.social
Historian of health, sex, and gender. Author of Lost. Seeker of more academic inclusion. Baker of mediocre pastries. she/her
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In January, the Huntington Library will be hosting a special conference: Abortion in American History: Intimate Decisions, Medical Knowledge, and Legal Decrees in the Two Centuries Before Roe v. Wade. Just look at this lineup of scholars! huntington.org/event/aborti...

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

11/19 update on post-Dobbs abortion bans: ❌ Total ban: SD, OK, TX, MO, AR, MS, AL, LA, KY, TN, ID, WV, IN ❌ ~6-wk: SC, FL, IA, GA ❌ 12-wk: NE, NC ❌ 15-wk: AZ ❌ 18-wk: UT 🚫 Ban blocked but no clinics remain: ND (total) ⚠️ Ban currently blocked: WY (total)

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

So everyone, unfortunately, should probably read up on Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Act. To get you started, check out this forum I put together with other historians of the period. This is all forthcoming in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. blog.shgape.org/anthony-coms...

submitted 114 days ago • 7 comments

Had a meeting today where I was told, "this work you are doing is even more important now." I'm holding on to that as much as I can. Keep going.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Watching people on tv talk about how losing a girlfriend and losing a job are stressors that can play a part in motivating a mass shooter and nobody’s talking about the fact that women lose jobs and relationships too and it literally almost never ends in mass murder.

submitted 491 days ago • 86 comments

Wait, when did we get horse cops on campus?

submitted 493 days ago • 0 comments

Friends, what history of sex books/articles published in the past 10 years do you love? Any time period or geographic area. I want all the great ones for my grad seminar.

submitted 501 days ago • 1 comment

Maybe Kevin should have smiled more.

submitted 514 days ago • 2 comments

Today is "Lobos and Lowriders" on campus. You wish your school was this cool.

submitted 527 days ago • 0 comments

This weekend I got to attend the wedding of Vivi and Moana. The reception included 10 hours of dancing, a gymnastics routine by Moana, and their dog Sophie giving birth to triplets. It was a magical day.

submitted 529 days ago • 2 comments

Putting this out into the skystorian void- our chair/commentator had to cancel for WHA and my panel on archives & Indigenous history is in need of at least a chair it’s the last day of the conference if any skystorians are there 🗃️

submitted 536 days ago • 1 comment

I'm playing around with AI image generators to use for an assignment and here is one of the results for "a man lying in bed looking sick in the 1600s"

submitted 534 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone used an AI image generator they like? I have an image assignment and want to make it accessible

submitted 537 days ago • 0 comments

Very curious about what spotify's algorithm will make of my student-constructed class playlist

submitted 556 days ago • 1 comment

Got to orient new graduate students yesterday and I packed their folders with a couple of extra goodies. I loved introducing them to @berincole.bsky.social!

submitted 559 days ago • 0 comments

If you have not read Felicity Turner's Proving Pregnancy, go do that now! If you want to know why, read my review of it: https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jhmas/jrad044/7237814?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=jhmas&utm_medium=email

submitted 563 days ago • 1 comment