Join Renée Camila in conversation with Marie White about plant medicine for fertility, community care, and birthwork. Marie is an author, herbalist, and environmentalist. Her work focuses on medicinal herbs, relationship between people and plants, climate, and community care. She is the author of The Intimate Herbal (2022) and The Herbal Doula (2024), both through North Atlantic … Continued


Letters and Politics

A History of Political Parties

Daniel Schlozman is associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History; and coauthor of The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics. Sam Rosenfeld is associate professor of political science at Colgate University. He is the author of The Polarizers: Postwar … Continued


Law & Disorder

The Feminist History of the “Self-Help” Abortion Access Movement w/ Angela Hume; plus Resistance in Residence artist Ayodele Nzinga

Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely perform a procedure known as menstrual extraction, which can end a pregnancy, using equipment easily bought and assembled at home. This “self-help” movement grew into a robust national and international … Continued