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 Death in the archives. Teaching in an uprising. John Lennon slept here. Bloodletting and pleurisy. Precedents for a pandemic. Doctors and police brutality. Mass murder and medicine. There is hope beneath the pain. What to expect when a vaccine finally arrives. Confronting the history… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Pear power. Female husbands. The (yelling) mothers of us all. Athens, Georgia in Reagan’s America. The Black American amputation epidemic. Lessons from the history of the polio vaccine. How do we record history in the internet age? Electric lighting and the housewife’s moral challenge…. Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Our mothers, before us. Dykes, Camera, Action! The linguistics of cooties. The real life Lord of the Flies. “Wheatless Wednesdays” in WWI. Plague doctor iconography in 2020. The grim history of counting the dead. A new history of being Asian-American. Designing the world’s first home… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Art Activist Barbie. The history of frozen pizza. How to memorialize a plague. A history of female cartoonists. Why did women vote for Hitler? Bicycling booms during lockdown. Cannabis in the time of coronavirus. Tiger King and southern queer cultures. What the great pandemic novels… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Managing melancholy. A history of crosswords. Pregnant in a pandemic. The best tour diary in pop history. The slippery history of the dental dam. When was toilet paper invented anyway? 5 native women leaders who made history. When Michigan students put the car on… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news How pandemics change history The story behind Rosa Parks and yoga. How fortune-telling took hold in Australia. Listen to Vietnam’s catchy coronavirus PSA. Amazing poster art from the “golden age” of magic. “The Afronauts” of Zambia’s 1960s space program. The horrors of San Francisco’s… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of go-go music. The iPhone at the deathbed. She wanted a freebirth with no doctors. Grimault & Co’s asthma cigarette empire. The Tampax empire and the tampon wars. Black Mexico and the War of Independence. Everything you know about obesity is wrong…. Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Darwin in love. A history of seduction. Is “snake oil” really from snakes? The long history of the hand-washing gender gap. Can “feminist design” save algorithms from bias? The 200-year-old diary that’s rewriting gay history. What happened to Playboy’s first black cover girl? The… Read more →