A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Herpes in space!
- Waitresses in 1916.
- London’s sewer king.
- Queering the catalogue.
- Women’s periods in the 1920s.
- The case for public sex classes.
- After the miscarriage comes the bills.
- American art during the Vietnam War.
- The stress of racism is killing our babies.
- A history of the ABC Afterschool Special.
- The politicization of shoes, 1760s-1770s.
- Altamont and the murder of Meredith Hunter.
- Black women’s resistance to sexual violence.
- A brief history of the illegalization of marijuana.
- A conflicted history of evangelicals and immigration.
- How Big Tobacco hooked children on sugary drinks.
- What was it like when mumps was rampant? Ask Greg.
- Saints or monsters? Pop culture’s limited view on nurses.