A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- When the waltz went solo.
- A year of intersex victories.
- Beware of vaccine euphoria.
- Witty, sexual – and menopausal.
- Emily Dickinson on spring break.
- How women lost status in saloons.
- COVID-19 vaccines and their metaphors.
- Ancient snack stall uncovered in Pompeii.
- The first Black women to serve in the U.S. Navy.
- A brief history of makeup as protest and power.
- The complicated history of Santa Claus in Russia.
- Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room.
- Ramps for disabled people trace back to ancient Greece.
- This French archaeologist broke the law—by wearing pants.
- Working with death and the experience of feeling in the archive.
- How a girl’s “death mask” from the 1800s became the face of CPR dolls.