A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Elvis in the box.
- “Are you popular?”
- Skating on stolen land.
- Jingle Dress Dancers and pandemics.
- Cannabis in the 1950s British tabloids.
- The hidden Black history of Lovecraft Country.
- Gerald Ford rushed out a vaccine. It was a fiasco.
- One sperm donor. 36 children. A mess of lawsuits.
- Fag Rag: The ’70s paper of gay political revolution.
- Race, medicine, and the origins of American psychiatry.
- These Black women were roller-skating way before TikTok.
- Air pollution films and environmental awareness, 1960–1972.
- A 1500s “miracle cure” made from trees probably didn’t cure syphilis.
- Feminists take over federal building in Mexico and use painting as a weapon.