On June 27, 2018, at the end of Pride month, I was visiting my family in my childhood home. My […]
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On June 27, 2018, at the end of Pride month, I was visiting my family in my childhood home. My […]
On a Monday in November 1905, a “little deaf and dumb … 10-year old Eurasian girl” called Mooktie Wood arrived […]
Mexico City, 18th Century For the wounded, diseased, and ailing of Mexico City, just about anything was better than the […]
If you’ve been on social media at all during the month of June, you’ve probably seen Marsha P. Johnson’s name […]
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of hospice. Archiving while black. Lobotomies and […]
As soon as I began my fieldwork in Guyana in July of 2014, I started to hear hushed discussions and […]
This piece originally appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2016 and is reprinted here with permission of the author. Janet Golden’s latest book is Babies […]
For several years, I’ve had a wall decoration in my office: a panoramic photo of a 1920s beauty contest. I […]
On February 15, 2018, President Donald Trump spoke about the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, […]
The #Metoo movement has made public what women have long known: that sexual assault and harassment are endemic in many […]