About a year ago, at a friend’s wedding, a fellow guest asked whether I knew that modern sanitary towels owe their origins to resourceful World War I field nurses who discovered the efficacy of repurposing military bandages as period pads. I did not. As a historian interested in the relationship between technology and the body […]
Kidnapped by al-Shabaab militants, the woman recounts the choice she faced: join their ranks or witness her family’s execution. Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado has become the epicenter of a conflict that, up to the present, has resulted in nearly 4,000 fatalities and displaced hundreds of thousands of people internally. Alongside the toll on […]
