My show, The Plague Archives, opens Saturday, January 28 at Pitzer Art Gallery. It runs til March 25.
A site-specific installation comprising 2 video projections and a dense collection of archival material on the social, cultural, and political histories of epidemics and outbreaks from the 10th through the 21st century, The Plague Archives presents a multi-layered transhistorical and intercultural discourse on the shifting attitudes and definitions of disease.
Starting on January 1st, 2023, the price of insulin will be capped at $35 a month for senior citizens on Medicare.
Happy New Year!
Murderball two years ago today: all murder, very little ball
Murderball today: all ball, very little murder
#Abortion was widespread in Colonial and 18th-century America.
In fact, Benjamin Franklin inserted an abortion recipe in a popular textbook he republished in Philadelphia in 1748 without any scandal.
“The decentralization of the woman’s experience, plus the medicalization of her feelings that led to that decision, are facets that belong to the long-gone 19th century,” writes a scholar of 18th-century America.
https://theconversation.com/abortion-decision-cherry-picks-history-when-the-us-constitution-was-ratified-women-had-much-more-autonomy-over-abortion-decisions-than-during-19th-century-185947
#History #DobbsVJackson
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A scholar of 18th-century America and the founders analyzes the Supreme Court opinion overturning the constitutional right to abortion, which he says relies on an incomplete version of US history.
Robert Maguire
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Dr. Christian DeFeo
Janel Comeau
Orobas
Rep. Ritchie Torres
Ken White
Rebecca Cohen
The Conversation U.S.