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

• 21 super creepy vintage Easter cards.
• Sylvia Plath wrote a delightful children’s book.
• Photos of famous authors as teenagers.
• What time of year is best for baby-making?
• Lady magazine trolling via 1939.
• Bill Gates wants you to have a condom that feels really good.
• 15 awesome photos from a 1970s Gay Rights protest.
• “Love your Butt”campaign hopes to save lives.
• Why more patients should blog about illness and dying.
• The Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act of 1907.
• Important Buddhist text written by a woman.
• French government debates the sexual lives of the disabled.
• Don’t forget: African American women marched for suffrage too.
• Patients, practitioners, and lodgers in Early Modern History.
• Scott’s last letter during his South Pole expedition made public.
• *Gasp* Baby Boomers are having more sex . . . and more STDs.
• Attention high school teachers: Do not say ‘vagina’ in biology class.
• A brief history of racist soft drinks.
• This is the last time I am going to tell you: There is no link, I repeat, no link between vaccines and autism (Please stop listening to Jenny McCarthy).