A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Fungi and witchcraft.
- Old-time Hucksterism.
- Whimsical anatomy drawings.
- Irish medical migration during WWI.
- Where’s the sex ed for disabled kids?
- “Jingle Bells” is not a Christmas song.
- Policing acid house parties in the 1980s.
- Doctors confirm 200-year-old diagnosis.
- How anxiety got rebranded as depression.
- The instruction of young ladies in early America.
- 11 female abstract expressionists you should know.
- Paris is Burning added to the National Film Registry.
- The CDC’s new quarantine rule could violate civil liberties.
- Diaries shed new light on suffering during siege of Leningrad.
- Princess Leia’s iconic hairstyle was inspired by a Mexican revolutionary.
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This Twitter thread gives some more context to the Hopi inspiration for Princess Leia, with some convincing photographic evidence: https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/814333284813410304