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.
- Frederick Law Olmsted’s war on disease and disunity.
- Half of accounts tweeting about coronavirus are likely bots.
- How do you get people to wear face masks? Ask a sex educator.
- Feminist multi-front battle to end FDA’s abortion pill restriction.
- Addicts, alcoholics, and communal living in postwar Los Angeles.
- My mom’s pot brownies were legendary during the AIDS epidemic.
- Ida B. Wells biography, written by great-granddaughter, set for 2021.
- What being a child of the AIDS epidemic taught me about coronavirus.