A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Tiny houses, narrow visions.
- Have you seen this punchbowl?
- Remembering the black radical press.
- Michelangelo’s grocery list is beautiful.
- The mysterious murder of Florrie Little.
- When mass murder is an intimate affair.
- The raw water craze might be a bad idea.
- A history of the “ideal” female body shape.
- A rare and deadly book of wallpaper samples.
- Three generations of black women physicians.
- Medical mystery: James Madison’s sudden collapse.
- The husband stitch isn’t just a horrifying childbirth myth.
- Reno’s gay rodeo and documenting local LGBTQ history.
- A forgotten feminist novel about the creative power of rage.
- The far out history of how hippie food spread across America.
- Prize launched for thrillers that don’t involve violence against women.
- The most dangerous gay man in America fought violence with violence.