A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Shutting down Hawai‘i.
- The teenage murderess.
- Women also know Washington.
- Finding asexuality in the archives.
- Archiving web content on COVID-19.
- Medicinal leeches and where to find them.
- The fashionable history of social distancing.
- The surprisingly contentious history of Purell.
- Lessons from my grandma on art, sex and life.
- Midwives are swamped with home-birth requests.
- How a French midwife solved a public health crisis.
- Empress Theodora and the medieval origins of women’s rights.
- Triple cripples: on blackness, sexuality, disability, and autonomy.
- They survived the Spanish Flu, the Depression and the Holocaust.
- A healing spirit from 19th-century Japan Is back to face COVID-19.