A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Tickets to dissections.
- Teaching histories of graffiti.
- How malaria gave us mauve.
- The uterus as political mascot.
- Birds as accidental preservationists.
- Jello makes the modern mountain woman.
- Meet one of America’s first female celebrities.
- The Uncle Tom’s Cabin card game from 1852.
- The sad history of children and drug disasters.
- How early feminists helped revolutionize birding.
- Why are women still getting Toxic Shock Syndrome?
- The subversive history of women using thread as ink.
- When museums rushed to fill their rooms with bones.
- Amassing the world’s largest digital transgender archive.
- The lives of women writers are languishing in the archives.