A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The first gay cookbook. The fast and the feminine. Explore the Disney morgue. The deadly history of nostalgia. Roanoke made me queer again. The rise and fall of the waterbed. Your tampon could save your life. The women who brought you LSD. Stepford wives… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The beautiful brain. Indispensable midwives? Scooby Doo in the museum. A history of children’s menus. How to make an abortion joke. A hairy history of eyebrow trends. Shakespeare’s close call with tyranny. My secret summer with Stalin’s daughter. The history of searching for a… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of hair dye. An obit you must read. A history of the “blurb.” A family history of lynching. The women who led slave revolts. A history of resuscitation techniques. Did drinking give me breast cancer? Foucault, sexuality, and neoliberalism. The women at… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news What’s a museum? How to woo a suffragist. The Abigail Adams problem. Rewriting black gendered stories. The rise and fall of the Spamettes. The history of “pickles and ice cream.” Conversion therapy and the culture wars. The radical women of Latin American art. Charles… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Disability, race, and art. The faces of World War I. Perfume advice for Victorians. A brief history of fake doctors. The language of American loggers. The Chinese survivors of the Titanic. (Mis)understanding a female serial killer. The strange history of medicinal turpentine. 10 historical… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The testosterone myth. Rube Goldberg got tech right. The history of the wolf-whistle. Archives and dumping grounds. On the misuses of medical history. The curious origins of the dollar sign. A brief history of breasts for pleasure. What it means to study food at… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Titillating toes. Guns in the family. Gender roles, not Jell-O rolls. A history of pseudo-profanity. Desexing the Kinsey Institute. Make every class sex ed class. Power dressing: a feminist history. A 1925 version of “men are trash.” A world of food history goes digital…. Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Disasters have histories. A brief history of gay theater. The controversial Sister Serpents. Nasty women, meet gobby women. How social media spread a historical lie. “For decades, our coverage was racist.” The ten women of the FBI’s most wanted. The whitewashing of King’s assassination…. Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Secrets of a brothel privy. Susan B. Anthony’s bad food. A woman on Mount Rushmore? The history of the “ideal” woman. Lena Dunham’s lesson for doctors. Why black disability history matters. Walking in Harriet Tubman’s footsteps. Key concepts and research in bioethics. Women’s Experiences… Read more →

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of the “ditz” voice. Menstruating while disabled. Vintage posters of strong women. The vaccine that changed the world. The illnesses and death of Queen Mary I. Super Spooner and the Witchcraft murder. The story of the skull found in a London pub…. Read more →