April 2024 Student History Club Lecture

Join us for the April 2024 Student History Club (SHC) with Jessie Liu, 2023 recipient of the Worthington Essay Contest Undergraduate Award. Ms. Liu will present her outstanding paper titled, "Medical Misogyny, Feminist Science, and Breaking the Cycle: The Development of Premenstrual Syndrome in the 20th Century." She will discuss the formalization of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) as a diagnosis, its contentious etiology, and the evolution of perspectives over six decades.

Jessie Liu, a senior at Harvard College from Seattle, WA, studying History and Science on the Medicine and Society track, will be sharing insights from her research. As the Co-President of the Harvard chapter of the Massachusetts Menstrual Equity Coalition and a volunteer Medical Advocate at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC), Jessie is deeply passionate about reproductive health, rights, and justice. Her honors thesis focuses on the medical management of the "rape kit" within the development of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) profession and forensic nursing from the 1970s-2000s in North America.

The lecture will conclude the SHC lecture series for the academic year and will take place Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 12 PM EST on Zoom. This event is open to the public. Virtual seating is limited and registration is required by Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at 6 PM to reserve your seat and to receive login information.