A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The Nazi microbiota.
- Nevada is about to ratify the ERA.
- Is that vintage Alexander Fleming mold?
- Do you remember the Lesbian Avengers?
- In Philly, sign language has its own accent.
- Making queerness relevant in public history.
- Creepy objectification of women in early park films.
- First case of successful sickle cell reversal therapy.
- Poking fun at physicians in songs, poems, and jokes.
- Morals, mammaries, and the invention of the stethoscope.
- Did the Mona Lisa have syphilis? (Spoiler alert: no, stop it.)
- Meet the “she” behind: “She sells seashells by the seashore.”
- Will the next scientific breakthrough come from a history book?
- Race, exotic fantasy, and the history of male underwear models.