The Parasocial Style in American Politics, Part 2: Witch Hunts and Comfort Blankets
As during witch hunts, social media enables a process of rendering people into totemic figures in a war between Good and Evil.
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Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, The Woman who Ended Sterilization Abuse in the U.S.
From 1937 to 1960, one third of the population of mothers on the island of Puerto Rico were sterilized through
The Capitol Crawl and the Long Struggle for Disability Rights
The ways in which disabled people have suffered from the stigma surrounding disability vary “from the freak shows of the
How James Marion Sims Became the Father of Modern Gynecology by Experimenting on Slaves
In the 1890s, our society put colonialist abuse on a pedestal when the monument honoring James Marion Sims was erected
Eugenics and Contraceptives in Puerto Rico: A History of Manipulation and Unethical Experimentation
We live in a time when more access to contraceptives means that people have more of a say over their