A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The anatomical Venus.
- Feck! A history of swearing.
- The coroner’s verdict is final.
- What life with polio looked like.
- Blood, controversy, and puddings.
- On Greek statues and small penises.
- Margaret Atwood on LGBTQ history.
- New opium epidemics, old problems.
- Diabolical filthiness vs. divine castration.
- A major Native American site is being looted.
- Lost superstitions from the early 20th century.
- When Mexicans feared American immigration.
- Free love and the first female presidential nominee.
- Constitutional Amendments that never came to pass.
- US government says this gay couple’s 1975 marriage is valid.