Elise A. Mitchell

A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.” She’s one of at least two Te...

Texas 18-year-old died of sepsis after 3 ER visits Despite bleeding and pain, 2 hospitals sent her home because the fetus had a heartbeat. The 3rd confirmed fetal death—but it was too late. She died. This is the deadly cost of abortion bans. Abortion is health care
www.propublica.org/article/neva...

As transphobia abounds, I am examining how the few spaces under my control can be a refuge for trans and non-binary students. They need all of us. Please do not leave this work to already overburdened and targeted gender queer faculty. We all have a role to play right now.

Yikes…

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Reading about the Brown settlement… heartbroken for all, especially the gender expansive members of that campus community. I’m also wondering who will be sacrificed for research funding and the veneer of prestige next… We know more of us will be next…

More than a dozen slavery displays in Philly, including at Washington’s former home, have been flagged for a Trump admin review Thirteen items at the President's House Site, which illustrates the paradox between freedom in the new nation and the ongoing horrors of slavery, were among those flagged for review.

Materials will be evaluated by the National Park Service for containing information that “inappropriately disparages Americans past or living,” according to internal comments, obtained and reviewed by The Inquirer, from one or more employees tasked with evaluating INHP’s exhibits.

Meanwhile AI is draining us too. SMH.

So we are speeding ahead toward World Water War I in 2075? 2090?

For those who asked. The link tree for the Sameer Project is here: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

I feel like this begs the question (again) at what point do our institutions begin to lose credibility as a result of their prejudices and roles in repression…? Asking for all my friends.

I was in revising hell earlier this week. I had so many doubts. But pushing through works. To other writers out there, we can do this! But we have to stick with it!

Kinda cracked the code to revising Chapter 2 this morning. It’s much better than before now. And Chapter 1 is doing what it’s supposed to and starting to “sound” good. The book is coming along!

I just found this today. Exactly when I needed it.
Thank you @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social

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Heat, storms, mosquitoes the big threats at Alligator Alcatraz, experts say Florida’s hastily constructed detention camp in the Everglades, which began processing immigrants late this week, has been praised by President Trump.

The WaPo reports Yale professor emeritus of epidemiology Durland Fish as saying, “The risk of mosquito-borne disease at this site is significant.” Viruses he detected during a mosquito study conducted in the area of the detention center can cause neurological damage, including encephalitis. [15/17]

Fund SEPTA!
Philly doesn’t want your shady Uber bus.
It doesn’t want your Waymo death trap.
Fund the good old public transit! Literally for goodness sakes!

Thank you!!

“The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The “Practitioner of Physick and Surgery” and the Enslaved “Doctor”: Medicine, Slavery, Race, and Patriarchy in the Eighteenth-Century Jamaica In 1773, Alexander Johnston, a Scottish ‘Practitioner of Physick and Surgery’ in St. Ann, Jamaica, made a list titled ‘my slaves’. Beside the name ‘Galen’ he wrote ‘a Doctor’. Galen was the only ensla...

Many thanks to Désha Amelia Osborne, Eloise Grey and Matthew Lee for shepherding this piece to publication in their special issue!

jiss.aberdeenunipress.org/article/id/3...

Awards Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article The Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article is awarded annually for the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the intersection of gender and…

Thank you so much for the recognition @nursingclio.bsky.social !
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I'm honored to share that my article "The ‘Practitioner of Physick and Surgery’ and the Enslaved ‘Doctor’" was given honorable mention for the @nursingclio.bsky.social Prize for Best Journal Article in the History of Gender and Medicine! Many congrats to the winners Cathy McClive and Lisa W. Smith!

An African-centered account of the protracted battle to end the slave trade, connecting local and global histories.

Roquinaldo Ferreira's Worlds of Unfreedom is out now. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Setúbal had a thriving Black community in the late 1400s early 1500s. With the advice of a colleague we both thought there might be something to find. But as I was finalizing my research schedule this morning, I learned of the fire. I guess I’ll never know if she made it… I kind of hope she did…

I’m in Lisbon for other research, but I decided on a whim that I might go to Setúbal to chase a lead about a Black woman healer in the late 1400s who may have migrated there.

Words a historian of the early modern Black Atlantic never wants to read: “Com o incêndio, na noite de 4 para 5 de outubro de 1910, no decurso da Implantação da República, os Paços Concelho e o Arquivo Municipal ficaram destruídos…”

A Transgressive Revolution: America 250 and the Public Universal Friend — INSURRECT! “A political administration dedicated to pretending there is no room for complexity or self-discovery in people’s experiences of gender must erase the stories providing evidence to the contrary.”&nbsp...

New piece by Sarah Pawlicki @insurrecthistory.bsky.social

www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/a-t...

I look forward to collaborating with native French and Kreyòl speakers over the next year to bring this resource to life!

Very excited to have received support from @dlocaribbean.bsky.social to build the teaching resource “Enslavement, Medicine, and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue: A History in the Press”

dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/2025/news/oe...

There’s been all this hype about STEM for decades. Now AI is ruining those industries (among others) and our environment… Now, would be a good time to invest in the humanities and social sciences… it might save us.

And we could easily save the History major with: “How to do research and write about it all by yourself”

I’m very excited about the Philly WNBA expansion… so please fund SEPTA so I can get to the games on time. K thanks bye!