A thread: My father was a Black disabled veteran, and those identities structured his life — and mine. When he was a young man, my late father lost a leg in an accident while serving overseas in Germany. After being strapped to a gurney for 8 hours and flown to Walter Reed, he rarely flew for the rest of his life. Too traumatized by the memory ...

Today is the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I woke up and thanked the 1973 Supreme Court for making abortion legal, preventing women’s deaths, and making reproductive autonomy possible. Here’s to hoping the current and future Courts don’t take away that right. Every Roe day, I see many Tweets about the anniversary or the Jane collective that helped women get abortions pre-Roe in Chicago. And I sigh because, y’all, there’s more to abortion history than Roe or Jane. #twitterstorians