A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Charting pain in 1879.
- So you want to be a beatnik?
- Documenting sex ed in queer bodies.
- Teen girls don’t need routine pelvic exams.
- What’s the deal with mail-in sperm start-ups?
- A year’s diary of reckoning with climate anxiety.
- How medieval surgeons shaped sex and gender.
- Letters reveal Louisa May Alcott’s business savvy.
- The belladonna treatment in the early 20th-century.
- The history behind a common New Year’s resolution.
- The queer history of a 1937 guide to London’s public loos.
- Could trans women get uterus transplants in the near future?
- Photos capture the world’s sewer systems when they were new.
- Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions, and near-death experiences.
- Artifacts show a Rosa Parks steeped in freedom struggle from childhood.