A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The WWII love letters between two men.
- Mending the broken faces of the Civil War.
- Meet Florence Nightingale, queer statistician.
- What was life like for women in the Viking Age?
- The tragic lessons of cinema’s first gay love story.
- Fascinating vintage photographs of grocery stores.
- Letters from women in 1917 pleading for abortions.
- The tax proposal that targeted spinsters and their cats.
- Pregnant? Nine pretty baby names inspired by witches.
- New documentary, Rebel Dykes of London, is on its way.
- The very long and eye-rolling history of the naughty nurse.
- OMG! The oral history of The Oregon Trail computer game.
- Victorian gender norms shaped the way we think about animal sex.
- Do some historic sites communicate “Make America Great Again” messages?