A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Live alone like it’s 1936.
- The architecture of an asylum.
- The colorful history of political pins.
- I’m not “Mrs. Putnam,” I’m Amelia Earhart.
- A historical perspective on women in surgery.
- Most scientific research data from the 90s is lost forever.
- Top scientists sue Salk Institute for gender discrimination.
- The singing, dancing Hormel girls that sold America Spam.
- The queer-inclusive evolution of East LA’s Chicanx identity.
- Game of Thrones finds fans among disability rights activists.
- The disabled activists from Denver who changed the nation.
- Over 83,000 vintage sewing patterns are now available online.
- The site of the Salem witch trial hangings finally has a memorial.
- The false advertising of 19th-century pharmaceutical trade cards.
- How actors and filmmakers cope with enacting rape scenes on screen.