Shannon Withycombe
@swithycombe.bsky.social
Historian of health, sex, and gender. Author of Lost. Seeker of more academic inclusion. Baker of mediocre pastries. she/her
I worked on this case and am celebrating this small victory
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
Idaho Court Expands Abortion Ban Medical Exceptions
In situations where a mother faces risk of death, the decision allows for abortions even when death isn’t imminent.
www.nytimes.com
April 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I worked on this case and am celebrating this small victory
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
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BREAKING: We're filing a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to challenge the 'disappearance' of 48 New Mexico residents.
March 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
BREAKING: We're filing a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to challenge the 'disappearance' of 48 New Mexico residents.
Anyone know of any recorded conference presentations available online that I could use for a discussion with grad students about effective presentations?
March 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Anyone know of any recorded conference presentations available online that I could use for a discussion with grad students about effective presentations?
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I wrote a short book about how the pregnancy test transformed what it means to be pregnant in the 20th century: www.bloomsbury.com/us/pregnancy...
Pregnancy Test
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:48 PM
I wrote a short book about how the pregnancy test transformed what it means to be pregnant in the 20th century: www.bloomsbury.com/us/pregnancy...
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11/19 update on post-Dobbs abortion bans:
❌ Total ban: SD, OK, TX, MO, AR, MS, AL, LA, KY, TN, ID, WV, IN
❌ ~6-wk: SC, FL, IA, GA
❌ 12-wk: NE, NC
❌ 15-wk: AZ
❌ 18-wk: UT
🚫 Ban blocked but no clinics remain: ND (total)
⚠️ Ban currently blocked: WY (total)
❌ Total ban: SD, OK, TX, MO, AR, MS, AL, LA, KY, TN, ID, WV, IN
❌ ~6-wk: SC, FL, IA, GA
❌ 12-wk: NE, NC
❌ 15-wk: AZ
❌ 18-wk: UT
🚫 Ban blocked but no clinics remain: ND (total)
⚠️ Ban currently blocked: WY (total)
November 19, 2024 at 2:21 PM
11/19 update on post-Dobbs abortion bans:
❌ Total ban: SD, OK, TX, MO, AR, MS, AL, LA, KY, TN, ID, WV, IN
❌ ~6-wk: SC, FL, IA, GA
❌ 12-wk: NE, NC
❌ 15-wk: AZ
❌ 18-wk: UT
🚫 Ban blocked but no clinics remain: ND (total)
⚠️ Ban currently blocked: WY (total)
❌ Total ban: SD, OK, TX, MO, AR, MS, AL, LA, KY, TN, ID, WV, IN
❌ ~6-wk: SC, FL, IA, GA
❌ 12-wk: NE, NC
❌ 15-wk: AZ
❌ 18-wk: UT
🚫 Ban blocked but no clinics remain: ND (total)
⚠️ Ban currently blocked: WY (total)
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So everyone, unfortunately, should probably read up on Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Act. To get you started, check out this forum I put together with other historians of the period. This is all forthcoming in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
blog.shgape.org/anthony-coms...
blog.shgape.org/anthony-coms...
Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Laws: A JGAPE Forum Preview - SHGAPE Blog
This blog series aims to provide vital historical context for those seeking to understand the modern revival of Anthony Comstock and his namesake law. The Comstock Act has never been repealed and rema...
blog.shgape.org
November 6, 2024 at 8:16 PM
So everyone, unfortunately, should probably read up on Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Act. To get you started, check out this forum I put together with other historians of the period. This is all forthcoming in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
blog.shgape.org/anthony-coms...
blog.shgape.org/anthony-coms...
Had a meeting today where I was told, "this work you are doing is even more important now." I'm holding on to that as much as I can. Keep going.
November 7, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Had a meeting today where I was told, "this work you are doing is even more important now." I'm holding on to that as much as I can. Keep going.
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Watching people on tv talk about how losing a girlfriend and losing a job are stressors that can play a part in motivating a mass shooter and nobody’s talking about the fact that women lose jobs and relationships too and it literally almost never ends in mass murder.
October 26, 2023 at 11:10 PM
Watching people on tv talk about how losing a girlfriend and losing a job are stressors that can play a part in motivating a mass shooter and nobody’s talking about the fact that women lose jobs and relationships too and it literally almost never ends in mass murder.
Wait, when did we get horse cops on campus?
October 24, 2023 at 8:16 PM
Wait, when did we get horse cops on campus?
Friends, what history of sex books/articles published in the past 10 years do you love? Any time period or geographic area. I want all the great ones for my grad seminar.
October 16, 2023 at 7:18 PM
Friends, what history of sex books/articles published in the past 10 years do you love? Any time period or geographic area. I want all the great ones for my grad seminar.
Today is "Lobos and Lowriders" on campus. You wish your school was this cool.
September 20, 2023 at 7:01 PM
Today is "Lobos and Lowriders" on campus. You wish your school was this cool.
This weekend I got to attend the wedding of Vivi and Moana. The reception included 10 hours of dancing, a gymnastics routine by Moana, and their dog Sophie giving birth to triplets. It was a magical day.
September 18, 2023 at 11:19 PM
This weekend I got to attend the wedding of Vivi and Moana. The reception included 10 hours of dancing, a gymnastics routine by Moana, and their dog Sophie giving birth to triplets. It was a magical day.
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Putting this out into the skystorian void- our chair/commentator had to cancel for WHA and my panel on archives & Indigenous history is in need of at least a chair it’s the last day of the conference if any skystorians are there 🗃️
September 12, 2023 at 1:08 PM
Putting this out into the skystorian void- our chair/commentator had to cancel for WHA and my panel on archives & Indigenous history is in need of at least a chair it’s the last day of the conference if any skystorians are there 🗃️
I'm playing around with AI image generators to use for an assignment and here is one of the results for "a man lying in bed looking sick in the 1600s"
September 13, 2023 at 3:37 PM
I'm playing around with AI image generators to use for an assignment and here is one of the results for "a man lying in bed looking sick in the 1600s"
Has anyone used an AI image generator they like? I have an image assignment and want to make it accessible
September 11, 2023 at 1:55 PM
Has anyone used an AI image generator they like? I have an image assignment and want to make it accessible
Very curious about what spotify's algorithm will make of my student-constructed class playlist
August 23, 2023 at 2:53 PM
Very curious about what spotify's algorithm will make of my student-constructed class playlist
Got to orient new graduate students yesterday and I packed their folders with a couple of extra goodies. I loved introducing them to @berincole.bsky.social!
August 19, 2023 at 7:56 PM
Got to orient new graduate students yesterday and I packed their folders with a couple of extra goodies. I loved introducing them to @berincole.bsky.social!
If you have not read Felicity Turner's Proving Pregnancy, go do that now! If you want to know why, read my review of it:
https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jhmas/jrad044/7237814?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=jhmas&utm_medium=email
https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jhmas/jrad044/7237814?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=jhmas&utm_medium=email
August 16, 2023 at 2:34 PM
If you have not read Felicity Turner's Proving Pregnancy, go do that now! If you want to know why, read my review of it:
https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jhmas/jrad044/7237814?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=jhmas&utm_medium=email
https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jhmas/jrad044/7237814?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=jhmas&utm_medium=email