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Read some of my favorite pieces
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Health topics and wellness technologies, especially related to LGBTQ+ people, individuals with disabilities, and those who live in rural locations in the U.S.
Forbes, "Apple And Gallaudet University Team Up To Put Deaf-Friendly Businesses On The Map: Literally"
UNICEF's Voices of Youth, "During Quarantine, Young Artists Use Digital Tech To Bring People Together"
Forbes, "From Pulled Hamstrings To Broken High Heels, Drag Can Be A Dangerous Sport. Here’s How To Strut Safely."
Forbes, "How Breast Cancer Campaigns Fail Transgender People"
Forbes, "Appalachians Are Fighting To Survive In A Region With Startlingly High Suicide Rates"
Forbes, "How Tennessee’s Transgender Business Bathroom Bill Poses a Major Health Risk"
Forbes, "Beyond Ice Packs, School Nurses Provide Vital Care to Rural and Impoverished Communities"
Forbes, "Why Hospitals Are Planting Gardens"
Forbes, "The Moderna Vaccine Is Part Of Dolly Parton’s Long Legacy Of Health Philanthropy"
Forbes, "Oaxaca Youth Create An App To Share Information About The Pandemic In Indigenous Languages"
Forbes, "Disabled People Menstruate, Too. Which Reusable Products Might Work For You?"
Forbes, "LGBTQ+ Health Centers Struggle During Covid-19"
Salon, "COVID-19 has made Americans lonelier than ever - here’s how AI can help"
The Washington Post, "How video games can help LGBTQ+ players feel like themselves"
Forbes, "Digital Covid-19 Vaccine Sign-Ups Leave Behind People Without Tech Access"
Center for Health Journalism, "Will the U.S. finally ban discrimination against LGBTQ+ Americans?"
Refinery 29, "Netflix’s Deaf U Proves That There’s No 'Right' Way To Be Deaf"
CNN, "For the deaf or hard of hearing, face masks pose new challenge"
Center for Health Journalism, "Health Care on the Line: The ACA helped LGBT Americans heal in more ways than one"
Healthy Women, "Healing My Confidence and My Skin From Chronic Yeast Infection"
Healthy Women, "With Video Chat, My Family Is Closer Than Ever During COVID-19"
Nerd Much, "Why You Should Use Video Games as a Wellness Tool"
Let's Eat Cake, "Dewdrop Releases 3 New Stress-Relieving Drinks And, Wow, Perfect Timing"
Medically-reviewed health guides for Verywell Health
"Causes of Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain and Treatment Options"
"What You Need to Know About Throbbing Knee Pain at Night"
"Causes of Knee Pain While Sitting: Why Your Knees Hurt and How to Find Relief"
"Causes of Hip Pain at Night and Treatment Options"
"Painsomnia: Insomnia Caused by Pain"
"Benefits of Drinking Lemon Water for Arthritis and Gout"
"What Can Happen If You Leave Your Yeast Infection Untreated"
"Are Yeast Infections Contagious?"
"Understanding the Cycle of Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis"
Women's History and LGBTQ+ Culture
Smithsonian, "Why Did Women Stop Dominating the Beer Industry?"
Lambda Literary, "Literary Cats, Queer Children’s Books, and More Archival News"
Lambda Literary, "Won’t You Join Our Neighborhood? A Bisexual News Roundup"
BuzzFeed, "11 Ways You Can Celebrate Pride Month Without Stepping A Foot Outside Your Front Door"
BuzzFeed, "11 formas de celebrar o Mês do Orgulho sem colocar o pé para fora de casa"
The National Trust for Historic Preservation (all NTPH pieces are on SavingPlaces.org), "The Lyon-Martin House Preserves the Story of Lesbian Advocates Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin"
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Anna Head School for Girls Influenced Generations of Women"
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, "The St. Augustine Lighthouse was Home to the First Latina Member of the Coast Guard"
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Recovering Queer History in Indianapolis"
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, "4 Storied Institutions Where Students Made LGBT History"
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Maggie L. Walker's Home Preserves African American Entrepreneurship"
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Rosita's Bridge Connects San Antonio to its Mexican American Roots"
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Explore the Legacy of One of America's First African American Congresswomen"
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, "How Three Women 'Computers' Made History at the Harvard Observatory"
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Retrace the Journey of Patsy Takemoto Mink, America’s First Female Representative of Color"
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, "The Places That Inspired Annie Dodge Wauneka's Activism"
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Giovanni’s Room and the Fate of LGBT Bookstores in a Dying Industry"
Rural Life in the U.S. South and in Appalachia
JStor Daily, "How Dolly Parton is Literally Like a Cougar"
Forbes, "Appalachians Are Fighting To Survive In A Region With Startlingly High Suicide Rates"
Forbes, "How Tennessee’s Transgender Business Bathroom Bill Poses a Major Health Risk"
Forbes, "Beyond Ice Packs, School Nurses Provide Vital Care to Rural and Impoverished Communities"
Forbes, "The Moderna Vaccine Is Part Of Dolly Parton’s Long Legacy Of Health Philanthropy"
BuzzFeed, "Conclusive Proof that 'Jolene' is a Queer Anthem"
Buzzfeed, "How Well Do You Know These Measurements From Vintage Cookbooks?"
Buzzfeed, "A Definitive Ranking Of All The Instruments That Dolly Parton Can Play"
Atlas Obscura, "John C. Campbell Folk School"
Atlas Obscura, "Junaluska"
Lambda Literary, "Queer Americana: Pete Buttigieg, Literary Festivals, and Rural Gay News"
Healthy Women, "I’m Hiking the Appalachian Trail From Home. Here’s How You Can, Too."
Lonely Planet, "The Best Time to Visit Asheville"
National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Ellen Woodward and the Women Who Brought Literacy to Southern Families"
National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Explore 8 Southern Sites That Tell the History of LGBTQ America"
National Trust for Historic Preservation,"Take a Cross-Country Tour of America's LGBT Ranches, Farms, and Co-ops"
Farmer-ish, "How Farming-Simulator Games Like Stardew Valley Teach Land-Based Literacies"
Good Housekeeping, "My Grandmother's Depression-Era Recipes Are Helping Me Cope During Coronavirus"