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Writing

Writing

My work has appeared in BBC Future, Smithsonian.com, The Baffler, The New Republic, Mental Floss, The Atlantic, Aeon, Real Life, JSTOR Daily, HumanxNature, Phox Pop, The Establishment, Mobility Management, 500 Pens, Nursing Clio, and Lady Science.

2021

20 of History’s Most Outrageous Scientific Feuds | Mental Floss

Looking Beyond the Female Firsts of Science History | Smithsonian.com

Eugenic Past, Eugenic Present: On Audrey Farley’s “The Unfit Heiress” | Lady Science

The ‘star-fiend- who unlocked the Universe | BBC Future

Women’s Relentless Pursuit of Science | I-M

2020

How a brilliant biologist was failed by science | BBC Future

S.J. Baker: The woman who transformed public health | BBC Future

The Black Nurse Who Drove Integration of the U.S. Nurse Corps | JSTOR Daily

The computer pioneer who build modern China | BBC Future

Facial recognition technology will make abortion access more dangerous | Lady Science

Wilderness Dispossed | HumanxNature

Through the Reproductive Lives of women: On Cassia Roth’s “Miscarriage of Justice” | Lady Science

2019

The woman who reshaped maths | BBC Future

The Pioneering Female Botanist Who Sweetened a Nation and Saved a Valley | Smithsonian.com

The Woman Who Revealed the Missing Link Between Viruses and Cancer | Smithsonian.com

Video Game Workers See Power in a Union | The New Republic

Before Cities Become Smart, They Must Become Accessible | Mobility Management

Alternative Driving Controls and & ALS Clients | Mobility Management

The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of Snake Handler Grace Olive Wiley | Mental Floss

How Margaret Dayhoff Brought Modern Computing to Biology | Smithsonian.com

Standing Connections | Mobility Management

8 Daring Female Entrepreneurs From History | Mental Floss

The Statistician Who Debunked Sexist Myths About Skull Size and Intelligence | Smithsonian.com

Surely You’re A Creep, Mr Feynman: On toxic moral license and the mythos of male scientific genius | The Baffler

2018

The First Female Student at MIT Started an All-Women Chemistry Lab and Fought for Food Safety | Smithsonian.com

The Archaeologist Who Helped Mexico Find Glory in Its Indigenous Past | Smithsonian.com

The Tongue Drive System: A New Frontier in Assistive Technology & Power Wheelchairs | Mobility Management

The Woman Who Made a Device to Help Disabled Veterans Feed Themselves - and Gave It Away For Free | Smithsonian.com

The Edwardian Women Who Claimed to Travel Back In Time | Mental Floss

The Botanical Artist Who Translate Plant Science Into Beautiful Art | Smithsonian.com

The Woman Who Challenged the Idea that Black Communities Were Destined for Disease | Smithsonian.com

The Rockstar Geologist Who Mapped the Minerals of the Cosmos | Smithsonian.com

The History of Breeding Mice for Science Leads Back to a Woman in a Barn | Smithsonian.com

'The Language We Speak to Ourselves' in Abby Norman's "Ask Me About My Uterus: A Woman's Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain | Lady Science

The Who Shaped the Study of Fossil Brains | Smithsonian.com

Playing with Marbles | Real Life Magazine

The Woman Who Transformed How We Teach Geography |Smithsonian.com

2017

How a Pioneering Botanist Broke Down Japan's Gender Barriers | Smithsonianm.com

Flowers of Resistance | Issue 4, Phox Pop (print mag)

"Building better technology, together": An Interview with the Recompiler's Audrey Eschright | Lady Science

How a Psychologist's Work on Race Identity Helped Overturn School Segregation in the 1950s | Smithsonian.com

The Bus | Lady Science

This 19th Century Lady Doctor Helped Usher Indian Women into Medicine | Smithsonian.com

In New Mexico, It's Back to School But Not Back to Lunch Shaming | 500 Pens

The Lady Anatomist Who Brought Dead Bodies to Light | Smithsonian.com

"Oh, yeah. That's totally a nipple": An Interview with Marie Sena | Lady Science

B For My Mom | Lady Science

Languages of Violence in 'The Handmaid's Tale' | Lady Science

The Logic of Cultivation in 'The Handmaid's Tale' | Lady Science

The Woman Who Stood Between America and an Epidemic of Birth Defects | Smithsonian.com

This Feminist Psychologist-Turned-Rock Star Led a Full Life of Resistance | Smithsonian.com

The 17th Century Lady Astronomer Who Took the Measure of the Stars | Smithsonian.com

What Trump's Immigration Policies Mean for Domestic Violence Victims | The Establishment

These Four Black Women Inventors Reimagined the Technology of the Home | Smithsonian.com 

What Will Become of Climate Refugees in the Age of Trump | Lady Science

Men, Get on Board With the Women's March or Sit Down | Lady Science

"Hidden Figures": Finally a NASA Film Not About White Guys | Lady Science

2016

In "The Glass Universe," Dava Sobel Brings the Women 'Computers'of Harvard Observatory to Light | Smithsonian.com 

This Lady Scientist Defined the Greenhouse Effect but Didn't Get the Credit | Smithsonian.com

Thinking and Writing in a Post-Trump World | Lady Science

The Early Feminist Who Used Botany to Teach Kids About Sex | The Atlantic 

The Struggle of Women in Science is Written in the Stars | Aeon 

Freaks, Monsters, and Misogyny in "Penny Dreadful" | Lady Science

Gertrude Caton-Thompson, Women's Networks, and Racial Politics in Great Zimbabwe | Lady Science

Disability, Pregnancy, and the Continued Fight for Workers' Rights | Lady Science 

Monsters, Myths, and Constellations | Lady Science

Anthropos-cene | Lady Science

Manhattan's Missing Women | Women You Should Know

Searching for Racial and Sexual Justice in Reproductive Rights | Women You Should Know

Wonder Women of STEM | Women You Should Know

Women, Animals, and the Poetry of Activism | Nursing Clio

Vulgar Women, Queer Men, and Unruly Spirits | Lady Science

Who Killed the World? | Lady Science

The Lady Detective | Lady Science

2015

"Ways to Please a Lady": Advertisements for the Modern Kitchen | Lady Science

"National Geographic" and the Modern Lens of Empire | Lady Science

Sex-Role Reversal and Gender Benders | Lady Science

Science with a Capital "S" | Lady Science

Surviving the Trenches | Lady Science

Subversive Science | Lady Science

Married to NASA | Lady Science

One Final Bone to Pick with "The Knick" | Lady Science

Fodder for Progress: Caesarean Patients in "The Knick" | Lady Science