A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Defunding the (drug) police.
- The literary life of Octavia E. Butler.
- The last children of Down syndrome.
- The quiet history of lesbian pulp fiction.
- The early modern precursor to turducken.
- Our long-running love affair with pigeons.
- The peculiar role of America’s First Ladies.
- How two French introverts quietly fought the Nazis.
- Patsy Takemoto Mink blazed the trail for Kamala Harris.
- What the lullabies we sing to our children reveal about us.
- Airborne infection control in 20th-century peace and war.
- Where is the Smithsonian museum for American Latinos?
- A nonfiction comic about historical racial health disparities.
- How telemedicine startups are revolutionizing abortion health care.
- IBM apologizes for firing transgender computer pioneer…52 years later.
- How teens helped secure Washington’s Prop 90 sex education mandate.