Some Recent Work

Austere Mothering – Parapraxis Magazine

How the College Application Essay Became So Important  – TIME

Gimme Shelter. Please??? – Slate

The Politics of Care: On Angela Garbes’s “Essential Labor” and Peggy O’Donnell Heffington’s “Without Children” – The Los Angeles Review of Books

On Writing Again – The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics

A Lunchbox Lesson in Letting Go – Salon

The Best New-Baby Gift? A Home-Cooked Meal – Chatelaine

How the Internet Ruined the Birth Story – Slate

After Childbirth and Prolapse, I Turned to Weight Lifting – Catapult

The Pandemic Has Exacerbated the Transformation of Grandparenthood – Washington Post

Lean In Sexuality and the Labor of Self-Discovery – The Los Angeles Review of Books

The Challenges Faced by Breastfeeding Olympians Reflect a Bigger Problem – Washington Post

Becoming a Mother in the Isolation of the Pandemic – Jezebel

The Flexible Work Fallacy – Aeon Magazine

History Now – Contingent Magazine

White Weddings and the Politics of Taste – Jezebel

The Elephant in the Room: Career Diversity and the Crisis of Grad Student Mental Health – Perspectives on History

Loss, Doubt, and Liberation: Motherhood in 2018 – History Workshop Online

Forging a Politics of Care: Theorizing Household Work in the British Women’s Liberation Movement – History Workshop Journal

A Dilemma for Expats and Repatriates Alike: How to Tip – The Wall Street Journal