March in Madison from where Corey Ruiz was shot by a Madison police officer to the police department
Tara Mulder
@taramulder.bsky.social
Roman historian. History of pregnancy, childbirth, abortion, sex, & gender. she/her Available now: A Womb of One's Own: Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2026.
I had a great time talking to Ali Muldrow on Wort community radio about my new book, home birth, giving birth yesterday, and reproductive justice. @ucpress.bsky.social
A Public Affair@apublicaffair.bsky.social · 4mo ago🎙️ Before pregnancy and birth were medicalized by male physicians, they were the domain of midwives and women. @taramulder.bsky.social tells the story of birth in ancient Rome in her new book, A Womb of One's Own from @ucpress.bsky.social. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-story-of...
This thread captures the issues with the idea of “viewpoint diversity” which liberals bandy about in good faith, but which conservatives wield in bad faith (and so with the uncritical backing of liberals). He shows that this is not a new thing, but part of a long-term deliberate strategy.
Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4mo ago“Viewpoint diversity” is a trap For @table.media, I wrote about the Yale report on “Trust in Higher Education” – and why we will not be able to defend academic freedom by accepting the terms set by a rightwing campaign intended to impose reactionary rule. Some thoughts, since it is in German:
I'm so excited to have my book featured in Pasts Imperfects this week! Thank you to @sarahebond.bsky.social for great editing!
Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt’s the last Pasts Imperfect before a break! ☀️ The amazing @taramulder.bsky.social discusses her new book on Roman childbirth. Then, Qin era beer, ancient infants wrapped in Tyrian purple; attacks on faculty free speech; new ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social; & much more.
Recording this was incredibly cathartic. I’m so honored to have been on such a great podcast!
Drafting the Past@draftingthepast.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat a joy this conversation with @taramulder.bsky.social was! She manages to bring the experience of pregnancy and childbirth in ancient Rome vividly to life, and I wanted to know HOW. She told me that and more--including the "anti-acknowledgements" she wrote... draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
I had the chance to talk about my book with Miranda Melcher at the New Books Network podcast! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
Tara Mulder, "A Womb of One's Own: Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome" (U California Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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My author Q & A on the UC Press blog: "A thread running through the whole book that resonates with modern reproductive issues is how patriarchy and misogyny feed systems that privilege fetal and infant life and health over maternal well-being."
Q&A with Tara Mulder, author of "A Womb of One's Own"
Author Tara Mulder on her unique perspective as a classicist and daughter of a homebirth midwife and how she reconstructed ancient women's lost stories of childbirth and pregnancy.
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The book is out and I recorded an episode about in with Johanna Hanink on Lesche podcast!
Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome - Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas
Content warning: This episode contains detailed descriptions of childbirth complications -- including maternal and infant mortality -- and of how such complications were handled by ancient midwives an...
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Three friends, three historians, three books about women in ancient Roman. ❤️❤️❤️
It's here! My author copies have arrived. There's still time to pre-order before the official release date on May 5th: www.ucpress.edu/books/a-womb...
@sarahebond.bsky.social breaks down why saying that enslaved people ate better than poor free persons in Ancient Rome is a problem
I have literally never cared about anything as much as Republicans (including those on the Supreme Court) care about whether someone was actually born with a penis.
Steven Mazie@stevenmazie.bsky.social · 11mo agoNEW at SCOTUS: the Court decides 6-3 that Trump can require transgender people to list their biological sex on passport applications. Justice Jackson writes a long dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan.
New Book! "All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-full Academic Spaces" now available from UGA Press. Excited to talk about the book with folks, so please consider if this topic and ideas are well-suited to department seminars, class visits, or other conversational spaces.
Lol race science is back baby, and it's stupider and more transparently capitalist than ever
The Economist@economist.com · 11mo agoA new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Working on some aspect of clothing in #LateAntiquity? Going to NAPS? Submit a proposal to the @catacombsociety.bsky.social organized panel!
International Catacomb Society @catacombsociety.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe are organizing an online session for the 2026 annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society: "Clothing and Meaning-Making in Early Christianity". Proposal deadline is Nov. 19. www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
The NYTimes is coming hard for c-sections today (!) One article addressing "the worst test in medicine" (continuous electronic fetal monitoring) and how it leads to unnecessary c-sections (known & ignored for decades) (1/6)
This is how I feel about many of my toddler's books. They're just giving him ideas. I had to hide one potty training book because it was all about how he shouldn't use the potty for anything except pottying (e.g. as a boat or a container for snacks). Such things had never occurred to him.
Andrew Walsh@walsh.bsky.social · 11mo agoI didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it
I cried watching Mamdani's acceptance speech today because it's so incredible to see an American politician fighting for straight forward, tangible things that would make life better for people like me, like free buses and subsidized childcare.
I have created and assigned a printed course pack for the first time in my 11-year career in higher ed and I am having the best class ever! The students are doing the readings and they are engaged in discussions.
So excited for my friend Curtis's awesome book, coming out appropriately on Jan. 6! He has been working on this material for long time and, unfortunately, it keeps being more relevant than ever.
Curtis Dozier@curtisdozier.bsky.social · 11mo agoMy book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
My book is coming on May 7, 2026. Pre-orders available now from Barnes & Noble and Bookshop! www.ucpress.edu/books/a-womb...
@baldwin.senate.gov Why aren't there two Noes next to your name on this chart?? Vote against passage and cloture!
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 2y agothis will be the final update of the evening, i'm gonna go drink or something
My review for Science magazine of Helen King's "Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts"
In search of the female form
Bodies have long resisted easy categorization
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No one has ever asked this, but this is the kind of bravado we need right now 😂
