A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Elizabeth I’s love life.
- A history of buffalo wings.
- Queering the black press.
- A history of the pap smear.
- A brief history of lesbian sex on TV.
- When sun dogs changed England.
- The man who defined drunk driving.
- The rise and fall of the sleeping car king.
- The modern tragedy of fake cancer cures.
- How Cutex hooked Americans on manicures.
- The history of women in sci-fi isn’t what you think.
- The US Army and the history of cigarette addiction.
- A history of L.A.’s gay bar scene, told in matchbooks.
- On medical cadaver dissection, power, and inequality.
- Long lines in women’s bathrooms is a design problem.
- When the suffrage movement sold out to white supremacy.
- Can a medieval video game can help us think about the past?