Shannon Withycombe

Idaho Court Expands Abortion Ban Medical Exceptions In situations where a mother faces risk of death, the decision allows for abortions even when death isn’t imminent.

I worked on this case and am celebrating this small victory
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

BREAKING: We're filing a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to challenge the 'disappearance' of 48 New Mexico residents.

Anyone know of any recorded conference presentations available online that I could use for a discussion with grad students about effective presentations?

Me too! And I bet alum would pay a lot more than $10 to support grad students. Meaning I would.

Pregnancy Test Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test…

I wrote a short book about how the pregnancy test transformed what it means to be pregnant in the 20th century: www.bloomsbury.com/us/pregnancy...

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)

Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Laws: A JGAPE Forum Preview - SHGAPE Blog This blog series aims to provide vital historical context for those seeking to understand the modern revival of Anthony Comstock and his namesake law. The Comstock Act has never been repealed and rema...

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...

So great! Thank you

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.

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.

Wait, when did we get horse cops on campus?

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.

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

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.

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 🗃️

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"

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

Nope. We are not senior. I will resist that as long as possible.

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

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!

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