A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news On sex with demons. Archiving at a distance. Should we kill chivalry?  A history of the raised fist. The post office as public service. The unlikely history of a gay porn landmark. The controversial history behind hurricane names. An old postcard gives clues to… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Toppling Columbus. When plague is not a metaphor. What Black nature might look like. Protesting police violence, a playlist. The world’s most historic ghost towns. The first gay magazine in the United States. Sierra Club grapples with John Muir’s racism. A brief history of… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Space is gay. A history of gloves. Black deaths matter. The hysteria accusation. How not to outlaw abortion. The long history of drinking games. How to confront a racist national history. Before Stonewall, there was a bookstore. We can’t end AIDS without fighting racism…. Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Party and protest. A history of tear gas. How we help the body breathe. Today’s Anglo-American eugenics. The past and future of Latinx voters. BleachMan says, “Clean it with Bleach!” The radical quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins. Froth, feathers, fluff: the history of the… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Votes for colonized women. The history of the riot report. The rape kit’s secret history. Graveyards as green getaways. Disney wrestles with its racist past. A history of boxed mac and cheese. What Hollywood does to Asian actors. New graphic novel on the Tiananmen… Read more →

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…. Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The lost art of sin-eating. San Francisco’s plague years. On the history of the artificial womb. The fatphobic myth behind baby fat. How to lose weight like a chess player. The revolutionary history of mooncakes. Lobotomy, science, and the digital humanities.  The many faces… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Historians in action films. Mermaids have always been black. The CIA’s top secret anti-poop diet. The twisty history of paternity testing. The electrifying history of the air guitar. An oral history of the early trans internet. Before the internet, cable TV was for porn…. Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Like a virgin? Moon landings and Nazis. Enslaved people lived here. Stop saying breast milk is free. We’ve already had a gay First Lady. Finding the “men” in mental health. The phantom of the anatomy lecture. When Soviets tried to eliminate the plague. The… Read more →