Tag: Nursing Clio

  • My Children and the Limits of White Privilege Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2013-08-28 Danielle J. Swiontek, Assistant Professor of History Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California Nursing Clio is honored to have Danielle J. Swiontek as our guest author today. Danielle is an Assistant Professor of History at Santa Barbara City…

  • A Letter and the Legacy of “Not White” in the USA Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-11-04 Adam Turner, Co-founder and Technical Editor With the events of the past months, and as Austin McCoy discussed here on Nursing Clio last week, it should be clear that white privilege is still alive and well…

  • Whose Sperm Counts? Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-08-19 Lara Freidenfelds, Historian of Sex, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in America Recently, a Canadian fertility clinic made the news because it refused to allow a white client to be impregnated with sperm from a donor of color. The clinic director told the media, “I’m…

  • The Trouble with Transcendence: Is Defying the Gender Binary the New Racial Passing? Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-01-21 Mallory Nicole Davis University of Oregon In 2010, Thomas Araguz III, a Texas firefighter died on the job, leaving behind his two children and transgender wife, Nikki.[1] The couple was legally married because although…