Lauren MacIvor Thompson
@lmacthompson1.bsky.social
Historian of birth control/suffrage/abortion law and policy. Book: "Women's Votes, Doctors' Rights: The Making of the American Birth Control Movement" coming soon with Rutgers UP. Asst Prof @kennesawstate; Fellow @GSU_HealthLaw; @UVa alum
Just sent to my editor at Rutgers!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh 😱 also here is a pic of probably only half the secondary sources I used to write this thing!!!
July 27, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Just sent to my editor at Rutgers!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh 😱 also here is a pic of probably only half the secondary sources I used to write this thing!!!
Stuff from my files
July 25, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Stuff from my files
NAWSA positioned themselves as the patriotic ones but they weren't just taking heat from the NWP for it but also a very large and very organized anti-suffrage movement #HATM
"Patriotic women serve their country without hope of reward. Vote NO - November 6, 1917" share.google/YuAlXYo5xEIJ...
"Patriotic women serve their country without hope of reward. Vote NO - November 6, 1917" share.google/YuAlXYo5xEIJ...
May 25, 2026 at 1:40 AM
NAWSA positioned themselves as the patriotic ones but they weren't just taking heat from the NWP for it but also a very large and very organized anti-suffrage movement #HATM
"Patriotic women serve their country without hope of reward. Vote NO - November 6, 1917" share.google/YuAlXYo5xEIJ...
"Patriotic women serve their country without hope of reward. Vote NO - November 6, 1917" share.google/YuAlXYo5xEIJ...
I missed posting on the 111th anniversary yesterday but here is my Armenian great-grandmother Araxie. She immigrated to the US alone in Aug 1914 because her father was growing uneasy about the political situation. He was beheaded by the Ottomans that spring.
Recognize the genocide.
Recognize the genocide.
April 25, 2026 at 2:40 PM
I missed posting on the 111th anniversary yesterday but here is my Armenian great-grandmother Araxie. She immigrated to the US alone in Aug 1914 because her father was growing uneasy about the political situation. He was beheaded by the Ottomans that spring.
Recognize the genocide.
Recognize the genocide.
April 3, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Yes, but also each of the three sentences Temu Frau Goebbels says here is so beyond ridiculously ahistorical and wrong, and not even for the reasons you think you know 🤦♀️
Finishing Women's Bodies, Doctors' Rights imminently. Just gonna rage write my way to the finish I guess? OK then!
Finishing Women's Bodies, Doctors' Rights imminently. Just gonna rage write my way to the finish I guess? OK then!
March 23, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Yes, but also each of the three sentences Temu Frau Goebbels says here is so beyond ridiculously ahistorical and wrong, and not even for the reasons you think you know 🤦♀️
Finishing Women's Bodies, Doctors' Rights imminently. Just gonna rage write my way to the finish I guess? OK then!
Finishing Women's Bodies, Doctors' Rights imminently. Just gonna rage write my way to the finish I guess? OK then!
I encourage my fellow OAH members to reach out to the organization with similar sentiments.
December 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I encourage my fellow OAH members to reach out to the organization with similar sentiments.
Hey OAH members. There's a post on Facebook that requires us to object. I did. Screenshot of post below and screenshots of email I sent to OAH leadership following.
December 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Hey OAH members. There's a post on Facebook that requires us to object. I did. Screenshot of post below and screenshots of email I sent to OAH leadership following.
The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader comes out next week. It has been the honor of my academic life to be involved with this brilliant public history project. The personal is always historical. Check out the essays on birth control!
September 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader comes out next week. It has been the honor of my academic life to be involved with this brilliant public history project. The personal is always historical. Check out the essays on birth control!
Oh my gosh look what came in the mail!!! Thank you Kylie Smith and Courtney Thompson-- such an honor to contribute to this @drkyliesmith.bsky.social @cethompson.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Oh my gosh look what came in the mail!!! Thank you Kylie Smith and Courtney Thompson-- such an honor to contribute to this @drkyliesmith.bsky.social @cethompson.bsky.social
As a US historian I had to get this shirt at the Ashland gift shop in Lexington.
July 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
As a US historian I had to get this shirt at the Ashland gift shop in Lexington.
Fellow 'Hoos:
June 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Fellow 'Hoos:
What ... is happening
June 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
What ... is happening
As a scholar of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era AND pharmaceutical history, I need to go lie down now.
April 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
As a scholar of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era AND pharmaceutical history, I need to go lie down now.
Hmmm. The resemblance...
February 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Hmmm. The resemblance...
An entire "literature?"
LOL.
LOL.
January 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
An entire "literature?"
LOL.
LOL.
Here was @jackiantonovich.bsky.social yesterday at our Huntington conference!
January 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Here was @jackiantonovich.bsky.social yesterday at our Huntington conference!
Mary Ware Dennett helped found the ACLU and was one of the org's first clients when she was prosecuted in the late 1920s under the Comstock laws for distributing a sex education pamphlet. She won her case.
I'm here now to help tell her story and remind you what is at stake.
I'm here now to help tell her story and remind you what is at stake.
November 10, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Mary Ware Dennett helped found the ACLU and was one of the org's first clients when she was prosecuted in the late 1920s under the Comstock laws for distributing a sex education pamphlet. She won her case.
I'm here now to help tell her story and remind you what is at stake.
I'm here now to help tell her story and remind you what is at stake.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #374,283!
September 18, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #374,283!
Syllabi done, snack drawer refilled, and new artwork for office ✔️. Bring it Fall 2023.
August 9, 2023 at 1:21 PM
Syllabi done, snack drawer refilled, and new artwork for office ✔️. Bring it Fall 2023.