A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Radical jugs?
- Afterlife of a factory.
- A 1907 multicultural vision test.
- Michel Foucault and Miley Cyrus.
- Meet TV’s first black lesbian superhero.
- Historians and government shutdowns.
- The secret sexual history of the barre workout.
- How the Spanish flu affected on American town.
- Teenage feminism decades before “Girl Power.”
- Newly identified van Gogh drawings go on display.
- Victoria Woodhull and the Victorian #MeToo movement.
- The lesbian history accounts on Instagram you need to follow.
- The history of the flu shot and some common misconceptions.
- Until 1975, “sexual harassment” was the menace with no name.
- A new clue to the mystery disease that once killed most of Mexico.
- How Roe v. Wade started with students, birth control, and a pay phone.