A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Food as protest.
- Defund the police.
- Motorcycle midwives.
- “Comfort Women” crisis.
- Hawaiians In The Civil War.
- Nurses have a history of activism.
- A comic about Fannie Lou Hamer.
- Documenting Seattle’s Capitol Hill.
- A 100-year-old lynching in Minnesota.
- The double standard of the American riot.
- Vogue could have looked like this all along.
- When the telephone was considered feminine.
- Street medics fight COVID-19 and tend to protesters’ wounds.
- Unseen script offers new evidence of a radical Lorraine Hansberry.
- Oleh Hornykiewicz, who discovered Parkinson’s treatment, dies at 93.
- How 1950s LGBTQ found hope and community in a pioneering L.A. magazine.