A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Fear of a gay Batman.
- Tattooing in the Civil War.
- Tulsa’s crow-eating craze.
- WTF is “freedom feminism”?
- Airbrushing out Soviet History.
- A brief history of the tube sock.
- How makeup went mainstream.
- Sex, religion, and an anatomy text.
- The British Museum’s looting problem.
- The 18th-century “skeleton suit” for boys.
- Teenage feminism decades before “girl power.”
- Modern accounting and the business of slavery.
- Transforming “conversion therapy” amid the sexual revolution.
- The often gross and rarely steamy history of sex in video games.
- Carmen Sandiego and the importance of feminism in edutainment.
- Nurses helped make us understand domestic violence as a health issue.
- On the birth of Princess Margaret and the rise of astrology as we know it.
- President Hoover deported 1 million Mexican Americans for “stealing” U.S. jobs.