A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.

• New photograph of poet Emily Dickinson discovered.
• “Bullying, Masculinity, and the Spectre of the Fag.”
• Does breastfeeding cause droopy breasts? (thankfully, science has the answer.)
• Speaking of breasts . . . a breast washing machine circa 1930s!?
• Stock photographs of sad babies with their feminist mommies.
• Art, the brain, and neuroscience.
• The ways in which the Civil War changed our perspectives of death.
• African Americans and the founding of the West.
• The Georgia State Archives is in danger of closing – sign this petition!
• Breathtaking interactive web exhibit featuring 1930s color photography.
• Is social media making women safer from sexual predators?
• Bioartificial organs made from the body’s own cells.
• The importance of menopause in Killer Whales.
• Testosterone treatments are all the rage.
• The effectiveness of ovarian cancer screenings in doubt.
• What white feminists get wrong about Michelle Obama.
• The Civil Rights Movement and women’s bodies.
• What does our perception of Female Sexual Dysfunction say about our societal perception of female sexuality?