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 →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A brief history of ramen. A mini history of the tiny purse. The world that Jazzercise built. A hidden history of Father’s Day. C-section viewing parties in Brazil. No one talks about perimenopause. The cynical politics of Donald Duck. A brief history of sex in… Read more →

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…. Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The prince of quacks. Too many episiotomies. The history of “Medicare for All.” Periods went public – now what? Plastic surgery, incels, and Chads. The case of a black woman serial killer. A history of Chicago’s lesbian fishing club. A Nazi textbook and a… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The abortion pastels. Being black in Nazi Germany. Colonialism created navy blue. The feminism of Amelia Earhart. Should these clothes be saved? Heterosexuality without women. The troubled history of psychiatry. The neon motel signs of Las Vegas. Why race science is on the rise… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Rethinking Anne Boleyn. Slavery and the family tree. A brief history of in-flight meals. The bubonic plague hits Hawaii. The feminist history of the bicycle. Is there a witch bottle in your house? Emmitt Till’s father was also hanged. For nurses, trauma comes with… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Sex, art, and misogyny. The first mom in space. A tale of two suffragists. What killed Prince Albert? A history of American beef. Was Shakespeare a woman? PTSD and the American Civil War. Escaping the corset in South Korea. The last queen of Greenwich… Read more →