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Essays, research, archival discoveries, and notes by Bo Laurent.

Essays, research, archival discoveries, and notes from a book in progress.

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Nobody Proofreads a Kindness

What an AI did with Anne Fausto-Sterling’s reading list

Eighteen references arrived as pasted text. What came back had DOIs, a repaired corporate author, and two published corrections nobody had mentioned.

Aug 9, 2026
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Ewe and newborn lamb

Hooves and Hands

How we work together to stay, to heal, and to co-exist in fire ecosystems facing climate change

Aug 4, 2026
Four-panel meme reading '5 minutes after invention of' the wheel, books, complex gears, and computers, each with someone declaring that the whole world is that thing.

The Whole World Is a Railroad Network

Two panels the meme is missing, and what they suggest about the one we’re living in.

Aug 4, 2026
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The Self-Referential Kangaroo

This Joke Has No Punchline.

Jul 31, 2026
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Looking for the students of Mary Dell Morrison

Mary Dell Morrison taught mathematics at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and won a Presidential Award for it. I am trying to find the people who remember her.

Jul 30, 2026
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A hand holding a kitchen knife against a dried, cracked kagami mochi.

Cutting the Mochi/鏡開き

Osaka at New Year, a block of stone-hard mochi, and the task a father left for an American hand to cut.

Jul 9, 2026
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Vertex Pride Menu. Five specialty drinks, each named after an LGBTQ+ historical figure, including Bo Laurent.

Ann Arbor’s Vertex Cafe Pride Menu

Vertex Pride Menu. Five specialty drinks, each named after an LGBTQ+ historical figure, including Bo Laurent

Jul 1, 2026
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CAH-X Syndrome: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

Mutations of CYP21A2 can cause both CAH and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

Jul 1, 2026
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Hunter Lane Grazing Coop awarded Gold Ridge Conservation District mini-grant

Gold Ridge RCD awarded us a mini-grant for materials to promote growth and sustainability of our grazing project

Jun 29, 2026
disfigured rudolph the red-nosed reindeer

Hermaphrodites with Attitude debut issue

The first newsletter I issued

Jun 27, 2026
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Affronting Reason

My first published article on intersex

Jun 27, 2026
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Kanae Nagasawa as a boy c. 1865

Nagasawa Kanae: A Sonoma Valley Life Shaped by a Global Turning Point

Nagasawa Kanae (1852-1934) was born a samurai but spent nearly his entire adult life in Santa Rosa

Jun 27, 2026
Bo Laurent
page 3 of The Sciences V 33 (1993)

The Sciences/Letters from Readers re: The Five Sexes

first public debug of the Intersex Society of North America

Jun 27, 2026
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Two scholarly pages beside a small open padlock.

Access Journal Articles and Theses Without an Academic Affiliation

How to access academic journals without academic affiliation

Jun 23, 2026
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traditional Japanese fukurotoji binding

Four Hands: Historical notes

I wrote a meditation on studying the kuzushiji text of 牛屋雑談. These are the citations that support the historical facts in that essay.

Jun 20, 2026
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風流てらこ 吉書はじめ けいこの図

Edo commoners practicing writing in a terako

Jun 18, 2026
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Four Hands: Between us, a whole reader

The year Tokyo discovered beef, in a bestseller almost no one can read now. Two friends decode it across an ocean.

Jun 18, 2026
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For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.

Chris North: Coming home to myself

Wellcome Trust has published some wonderful graphic stories by Chris North about his life as an intersex man

Jun 18, 2026
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Secret of Me doc featured on American Airlines

American Airlines in flight entertainment shows Secret of Me documentary

Jun 18, 2026

牛屋雑談

Learning to read くずし字 (kuzushiji)

Sharing my process of learning to read old Japanese

Jun 17, 2026
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Emi Koyama at ISNA — her legacy

Emi passed away in June 2026

Emi Koyama was one of the movement’s most distinctive voices. A remembrance of her work and what she meant to intersex advocacy.

Jun 15, 2026
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Print a Ukiyo-e at FedEx

How to Find, Prepare, and Print a Ukiyo-e at FedEx

Jun 5, 2026
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CBS News sheep power

Hunter Lane Grazing Coop makes national tv news

Our neighborhood grazing coop, in your living room nationwide

May 6, 2026
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Press Democrat article

Press Democrat features grazing on front page

Local paper features coverage of grazing for wildfire risk mitigation

May 6, 2026
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