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“Professional” Program Redefinition Endangers the US Healthcare Workforce Nurse practitioners are a lifeline for the millions of Americans who live in healthcare deserts: 87% are trained as primary care providers, and 80% care for Medicaid patients. Yet an obscure commit…

Nurse practitioners are a lifeline for millions who live in healthcare deserts. A new proposed federal rule would strip NPs of access to education funds, putting the workforce at risk.

@coryellen.bsky.social writes about the dangers of this rule in @nursingclio.bsky.social

Weaponizing Sound and Space: Spatial and Sonic Patriarchy as Forms of Anti-abortion Violence Shannon Stettner[1] The space outside abortion clinics is complicated. Much of it is public and there are important discussions about the uses of public space, the right to protest, and the “owners…

Shannon Stettner explores how space and sound can be used to enact anti-abortion violence.

After a Miscarriage, What Happens to the Fetus? The History is Complicated. This essay is part one of a two-part series on fetal remains and cultural politics. “Abuse of a corpse.” “Abandonment of a dead body.” “Concealment of the death of another.” These are charges that …

Today we published the first half of @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social series on fetal remains and cultural politics. Part one explores the history of handling fetal remains. nursingclio.org/2026/03/03/a...

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Author Series: The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London About the book: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, venereal disease, or the 'pox,' was a dreaded diagnosis throughout Europe. Its ghastly marks, along with their...

For Boston area peoples: there’s a fun-fact-filled talk about the history of STIs at Harvard’s @countwaylibrary.bsky.social on March 31!

libcal.countway.harvard.edu/event/15805705

Friendly reminder that we’re still accepting nominations the NC Prize for Best Journal Article!

In Pursuit of Purity: Environmental Affects, Reproduction, and the Promise of Bodily Sovereignty In The New York Times on October 10, 2025, an article titled “The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills” described a growing concern regarding “abortion po…

“Antiabortion activists who promote baseless anxieties around “abortion pollution” and “chemical abortion” amplify environmental affects of distrust and longstanding feminist concerns surrounding tensions between reproductive technology and bodily autonomy.” nursingclio.org/2026/02/25/i...

“Professional” Program Redefinition Endangers the US Healthcare Workforce Nurse practitioners are a lifeline for the millions of Americans who live in healthcare deserts: 87% are trained as primary care providers, and 80% care for Medicaid patients. Yet an obscure commit…

87% of NPs are primary health care providers. “Yet an obscure committee now promises to strip them of access to educational funds, putting the healthcare system, the nursing workforce, and patients at risk,” writes Cory Ellen Gatrall in this week’s ER essay. nursingclio.org/2026/02/23/p...

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“Professional” Program Redefinition Endangers the US Healthcare Workforce Nurse practitioners are a lifeline for the millions of Americans who live in healthcare deserts: 87% are trained as primary care providers, and 80% care for Medicaid patients. Yet an obscure commit…

Great new @nursingclio.bsky.social Emergency Response piece on the US Healthcare Workforce Professional Program and the impact of current cuts on nurses 👩‍⚕️

nursingclio.org/2026/02/23/p...

It’s been an exciting week at AAHM! 🎉

We're hiring two Social Media Coordinators to support the day-to-day management of our social media channels & help drive digital engagement.

Learn more here: histmed.org/join-aahm-as...

I literally wrote about this for @nursingclio.bsky.social! The draft included a section on hazing and the military in the 1990s, which conservatives opined was essential to being made into a man. (I originally bragged about my blood wings and E5 party.)
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A quarter of pregnant women are delaying prenatal care, CDC report finds Seeing a doctor early in pregnancy is critical for the health of mother and baby, doctors say. More women are either waiting longer or going without prenatal care.

"More pregnant women are delaying prenatal care until the later stages of pregnancy or going without it altogether, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Have you seen the short film “Jane Austen’s Period Drama”? We’d love to have someone write about it! This is a fantastic piece for scholars studying menstruation or period politics.

Texas A&M, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Academic Common Sense I can’t believe I’m writing this, but at least it keeps my fingers on the keys, not scratching my head or tearing my hair out. And I know that my words here will have no impact on the policies that…

“to prohibit alleged advocacy of “race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity,” clearly violates academic freedom, the First Amendment, and those colleges’ own academic missions […]” nursingclio.org/2026/02/18/t...

Teaching/Watching/Fearing Abroad While Minnesota Roils For the last four weeks, I’ve been in Ireland with a group of twenty-one St. Olaf College students. While St. Olaf is in Northfield, Minnesota, about 40 miles south of the Twin Cities, my January t…

A piece I wrote a few weeks ago, while I was in Ireland both wishing I was home and afraid to return. nursingclio.org/2026/02/13/t... @nursingclio.bsky.social

Teaching/Watching/Fearing Abroad While Minnesota Roils For the last four weeks, I’ve been in Ireland with a group of twenty-one St. Olaf College students. While St. Olaf is in Northfield, Minnesota, about 40 miles south of the Twin Cities, my January t…

A stunning and beautiful piece of writing from my friend @aearls.bsky.social. At @nursingclio.bsky.social today:

#envhist meets #histmed in this essay on plants, gender, and healing in colonial America 🌱

‘Words are but the shell:’ Can Plants Help Us, Historically? The Plant, the Nation, and the Infant Anglo-American colonist Elizabeth Hanson’s infant inexplicably survived captivity with her mother in 1725 amongst the Abenaki. Abenaki men thought the infant was demonic; the French thought it was …

“The ‘quotidian’ care of infants and pregnant bodies can give us insight into unexpected history […] even if we prefer to leave the suckling and wailing of pregnancy and birth far from our founding documents.” nursingclio.org/2026/02/11/w...

Mary Sully: Neurodivergence and American Indian Art The geometrical triptychs American Indian artist Mary Sully (1896-1963) crafted on paper, crayon, gilt, and ink render early twentieth-century American celebrities into arresting synesthesia. In on…

Today Diana W. Anselmo writes about Mary Sully’s art and how it “reflects a unique way of looking and feeling about the world.” Read more here: nursingclio.org/2026/02/04/m...

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With that in mind, please remember that @nursingclio.bsky.social has an ongoing 'breaking news' series. If you are also a pissed off feminist with thoughts on the Epstein files, pitch us. nursingclio.org/write-for-us...

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photo of the gravestone of Jason Russell, a gray gravestone with a winged skull. Inscription: Mr Jason Russell was barbarously murdered in his own house by Gage's bloody Troops on ye 19 of April 1775 Aetatis 59 His body is quietly resting in this grave with Eleven of our friends who in like manner with many others were cruelly slain on that fatal day. Blessed are ye dead that die in ye Lord

Narratives of innocence around civilians killed by state violence have been part of American politics since the beginning.

In 1775-6, colonists in Massachusetts portrayed their dead as the innocent, vulnerable victims of the "barbarous" violence perpetrated by the Regulars.

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

If you’re looking for a way to support MN right now this list of resources is a good place to start: www.standwithminnesota.com/home?fbclid=...

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We’re looking for scholars who can write CLIO ER articles for the following topics: mutual aid, comparisons between MN and previous moments, and reduced vaccine uptake. We will also accept any other pitches you have! Pitch submission instructions below nursingclio.org/write-for-us...

Medical Misogyny and Marketing Addiction: How the Nineteenth-Century Patent Medicine Industry Exploited Women Today, nearly half of young American women report negative interactions with healthcare providers. Research suggests that these experiences contribute to women pursuing alternative medicines at hig…

I really enjoyed this piece on @nursingclio.bsky.social on the links between 19th century patent medicine marketing/formulation and today's "alternative medicine" marketing which is so gendered: nursingclio.org/2026/01/21/m...

Medical Misogyny and Marketing Addiction: How the Nineteenth-Century Patent Medicine Industry Exploited Women Today, nearly half of young American women report negative interactions with healthcare providers. Research suggests that these experiences contribute to women pursuing alternative medicines at hig…

Some really interesting pharmaceutical history with present-day connections featured in this week's @nursingclio.bsky.social essay by Emily Homer 💊

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The Design of Motherhood: MAD’s Exhibition is Personal and Profound A friend of mine, a Catholic priest, says that everyone cries at weddings, but each for their own reason. Some are thinking of their own happy marriage and feeling nostalgic for their own wedding d…

Today for NC @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social reviews the Museum of Art and Design’s exhibit “Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break our Births” nursingclio.org/2026/01/14/t...

Page of information outlining the aims of the Locating Loss research project which explores the histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. This project aims to bring scholars from a wide range of disciplines together in 2026. Please DM me if more info is needed and this alt text is not enough!

Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! @nursingclio.bsky.social