Plant of the Month: Black-eyed Pea
...and economic stability. But, as agroecologist Liz Carlisle reminds us, for many people, this understanding of the black-eyed pea is anything but new; as she notes in a recent book,...
Mumbai, Where Indian Ocean Diasporas and Cosmopolitanisms Meet
...the “embodied emotions” of Parsi devotees at this site who emerge as spirit mediums of Sidi ancestor-saints express “the ineffability of feeling” that Liz Bondi notes is central to some...
Harvey Milk’s Gay Freedom Day Speech: Annotated
On June 25, 1978, the ninth anniversary of the Stonewall Riot in New York City, Harvey Milk gave an impassioned speech to his fellow San Franciscans celebrating Gay Freedom Day....
The Chinese Exclusion Act: Annotated
The passage and signing of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act set a number of precedents in United States immigration law. First, it barred an entire nation’s population from entering the...
Transgender Legal Battles: A Timeline
In 1952, Christine Jorgensen stepped off of a plane from Denmark, where she had received groundbreaking medical care and had grown into herself as a “blonde beauty,” as the New...
The Living Dead Embody Our Worst Fears
...out through the “lives” of the living dead on handheld devices and big screens around the world. Related Content Walking Dead: The Science Behind the Zombies Liz Tracey November 3,...
Plant of the Month: Hyacinth
Between August and October 2021, many trade magazines and blogs were abuzz with news of a Dutch bulb shortage in the U.S. A limited supply of fall bulbs grown in...
Marie Curie and Polish Resistance
Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes, for physics and chemistry. Most people know that. But few know about her efforts to resist the Russian Empire’s control of a region in...
The Combahee River Collective Statement: Annotated
For this month’s Annotations series, we chose the Combahee River Collective Statement, written in 1977 and first published in Zillah Eisenstein, ed., Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism,...
The Famous and Forgotten Women of STEM
...opportunity for service that highlighted their deeply ambiguous position, as Ellen More explained in a 1989 paper. The “Doctress” Was In: Rebecca Lee Crumpler Liz Tracey March 9, 2020 The...