A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Black mothers matter. Abolitionist, activist, dwarf. A brief history of the crock pot. The best queer YA novels of 2019. L.A.’s gay past, told in six landmarks. The long history of the singular “they.” A feminist report from the U.S.-Mexico border. The Scottish sisters… Read more →

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