A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Drawing dissection.
- The race to replace Viagra.
- An oral history of grunge food.
- Police violence and Stonewall.
- The dangerous game of croquet.
- The first Pride marches, in photos.
- The “brown babies” who were left behind.
- A history of the black market in human fat.
- A history of knife-crime panics in British cities.
- Overseer violence on 18th-century plantations.
- The complicated birth of the gateway drug theory.
- Old New York seen through a cab driver’s window.
- The intimacy of crime scene photos in Belle Epoch Paris.
- A black feminist’s response to the attack on MLK’s legacy.
- How LGBT union activists transformed the labor movement.
- How true-crime stories reveal a history of violence against queer people.