A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The midwives of St. Croix.
- Male midwives of Ethiopia.Â
- America’s coolest ghost towns.
- Does cancer spread while you sleep?
- Life in a 1930s psychiatric hospital.
- The mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe.
- Seeking wisdom in the history of epidemics.
- Unicorn cookbook found (on April 1st, of course).
- Rare photo Selina Gray, slave of Robert E. Lee.
- The interesting history behind a Cold War movie flop.
- Should “mad studies” replace the history of psychiatry?
- Freud was probably wrong about orgasms (surprised?)
- How many world languages do not have gendered pronouns?
- The forgotten history of the women-made comic, Tits and Clits.
- Cataloging and returning artifacts from the Attica Prison uprising.
- 8 black women of the Civil Rights Era that you should know about.
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I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your Sunday posts! 🙂
Thanks!
Nursing Clio and the ritual sacrifice to Baal are the highlights of the week.