A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
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- The prince of quacks.
- Too many episiotomies.
- The history of “Medicare for All.”
- Periods went public – now what?
- Plastic surgery, incels, and Chads.
- The case of a black woman serial killer.
- A history of Chicago’s lesbian fishing club.
- A Nazi textbook and a surgeon’s dilemma.
- Clarence Thomas, eugenics, and abortion.
- Lesbian artists and California’s queer history.
- The taboo history of women’s body hair in art.
- The surprisingly interesting history of milk cans.
- Queen Victoria like you’ve never seen her before.
- The artists and writers who fought racism with satire.
- Psychiatry, racism, and the birth of “Sesame Street.”
- The men who refused orders to murder Native Americans.
- How Central Park’s history played into the case against the Central Park Five.