A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
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- Why is giving birth so hard?
- Exploring the history of Afro-Mexicans.
- What’s so natural about natural medicine?
- The history of the internet’s first viral video.
- The invisibility of women military historians.
- The 1930s painting that declared lesbian love.
- An opera about gay life in 1950s Washington DC.
- When quackery on the radio was a public health crisis.
- The myth of black Confederates and fake racial tolerance.
- What history and fiction teach us about women and power.
- The menstrual cup that is easier for disabled people to use.
- How Old West theme parks lie about America’s pioneer past.
- Salem residents angry over museum’s plan to move archives.
- How the Victorians help explain our obsession with the microbiome.