A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of hair dye.
- An obit you must read.
- A history of the “blurb.”
- A family history of lynching.
- The women who led slave revolts.
- A history of resuscitation techniques.
- Did drinking give me breast cancer?
- Foucault, sexuality, and neoliberalism.
- The women at the heart of black power.
- The 19th-century’s last survivor is dead.
- The misunderstood science of sexual desire.
- The New Orleans Streetcar Protests of 1867.
- Dick Leitsch’s Guide to Seventies Gay Slang.
- Thousands of pre-NHS healthcare photos discovered.
- Challenging the Church’s menstrual shaming with poetry.
- Pharmacists want to provide free contraception in Ireland.
- Can You Name These Historic Lesbian Couples and Other Gal Pals?