Kings and popes thought she was their pawn. The Merchant’s Daughter begged to differ.
2018
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Alabama May Have Solutions to the Nation’s Black Maternal Health Crisis
Group prenatal care led by nurse midwives at a progressive clinic in Birmingham could offer a solution to the crisis in maternal health in the U.S.
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Midwifery Makes a Comeback in Alabama
In the first of a two-part series on midwifery in Alabama, where it has been criminalized for 40 years, Scalawag interviews a Certified Professional Midwife whose work attending home births had previously been underground.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Disney World: A Surprisingly Good Place to Grieve
“To my surprise, Disney World was not a difficult place to be while in mourning. To me it didn’t feel like an escape from grief, so much as a continued break from unendurable real life.”
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The Next Level of Commitment: Revealing Our Money Secrets
A personal essay in which Vanessa Golenia contemplates the ins-and-outs of merging finances as the higher earner — and bigger spender — in her (heterosexual) relationship.
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Mourning at the Magic Kingdom
A day after burying her father after his sudden death at age 67, Nicole Chung and her young family go on a long-planned vacation to Disney World, where she finds that making new family memories is one way to honor old family memories.
Posted inHighlight, Quotes, Science & Nature
We’re Fat, Not Stupid
Oh, did you think we didn’t realize that we’re fat? We’re all set, thanks, because the world never lets us forget it.
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The Dad-Joke Doctrine
“What did the farmer say when he lost his tractor? ‘Where’s my tractor?’”
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Brett Kavanaugh and the Cruelty of Male Bonding
It’d be really great if y’all could figure out a way to impress each other than didn’t involve assaulting or demeaning women.