A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
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- Votes for colonized women.
- The history of the riot report.
- The rape kit’s secret history.
- Graveyards as green getaways.
- Disney wrestles with its racist past.
- A history of boxed mac and cheese.
- What Hollywood does to Asian actors.
- New graphic novel on the Tiananmen massacre.
- Examining soldiers’ wounds in early modern Russia.
- The twisted history of domestic military intervention.
- A silver lining for the golden arches in Black America.
- Who were the male models in French history paintings?
- Racism, hazing, and other abuse taints medical training.
- Black activists and moving beyond “respectability tactics.”
- The Cherokee chefs bringing back North America’s lost cuisine.
- Climate change is making pregnancy riskier, especially for Black mothers.
- From HIV-AIDS to COVID-19: Black vulnerability and medical uncertainty.