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How Redesigning the Speculum Could Help Us Rethink the Rape Kit
In some cases, the speculum and rape kit can re-traumatize survivors by treating their bodies as crime scenes. Advocates say it's time to update them both.
Please Not the Shack: How M.A.S.H. Came to Predict Our Uncertain Futures
Everyone remembers spending time at sleepovers and between classes trying to divine their destiny through the acronymic game—but most fail to realize it's an age-old method of sublimating our existential dread as helpless children.
Mary Janes Were Originally Worn by Little Boys
A history of a shoe that has transcended 1930s boyhood, punk and goth scenes, and Sex and the City fashion.
The History of Peeing on Things to Find Out if You're Pregnant
From peeing on wheat and barley in ancient Egypt, to peeing on ribbons in the 17th century, to peeing on your hand when you're trying to aim for the at-home test.
The Prickly History of Pubes in Porn
Although recent debates about the disturbing lack of pubic hair in pornography have centered around contemporary feminism, women have been trimming their hedges for centuries.
