A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Amazon women were real. A midwife in North Country. The dark history of hysteria. A history of war in six drugs. The fight to decolonize the museum. Tapeworms, arsenic and magic soap. Chinese health and hygiene puzzle blocks. Dispatches from deaf education’s infancy. The… Read more →

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 →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The end of men, in 1870. A medieval new England. How herpes became a sexual boogeyman. Artificial intelligence has a gender problem. The photographer who x-rayed Chernobyl. How today’s queer artists are revising history. How male bias in medical trials ruined women’s health. Study… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news How to avoid “inspiration porn.” The Upjohn pharmacy in Disneyland. Barrier-free ghost hunting at Gallaudet. Pumping milk through polls and protests. How local TV made “bad” movies a thing. The whistleblowers of the My Lai Massacre. When flagellation was a national obsession. Writing queer… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The power of mapping. The end of Three Mile Island. A brief history of Christmas shopping. The accidental invention of Play-Doh. The history of women’s terrible pockets. The man whose face got stuck like that. Can a porn website liberate women in art? Uncovering… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Hacking Barbie. Asexuality in gaming. Dial meow for murder. Soap operas and rape. The sleek history of airline maps. Male nudes, exposed and examined. A fun romp through the history of sex. The mistake that toppled the Berlin Wall. When America tried to deport… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Beyond Harriet. Steal this archive? A history of vaping. The science of scary. Deadly lesbian kisses. The bizarre social history of beds. Breaking down sexist slasher tropes. Racial bias in health-care algorithms. The teens are making history of TikTok. The headless, legless pregnancy bump…. Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news How Italians became white. Menopause before menopause. The feminist history fat liberation. The commodification of witchcraft. A history of health foods in Ireland. Who were the real Peaky Blinders? Antibiotics are getting into everything. The midwife in the modern American West. Is this the… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Farm to hospital bed. Why IVF has divided France. A brief history of chicken soup. A “Cook’s Tour” of imperialism. Who are feminist baby books for? Argentine feminists remake tango. How the drug user became a junkie. The woman who designed tarot cards. Want… Read more →