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Victorians were mesmerized by the hair of the dead -- which reveals something about about how they saw life.

Experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer was also a teacher, and wrote about how she kept the "artist-self" alive while working her day job.

NASA recently cancelled an all-female spacewalk, citing a lack of spacesuits. Ironically, women played a key role in creating the very first spacesuits.

The famous novelist worked to fight the psychological cost of black oppression.

France's Yellow Vests have been protesting for months on end. Such protests are an integral part of France's culture.

Broadly defined, an ekphrastic poem describes another work of art. Here are some by Ocean Vuong, Aziza Barnes, Robert Hayden, Frank O’Hara, Danez Smith, and more.

Researchers claim to have turned back time inside a quantum computer. Meanwhile, most of us are still trying to wrap our minds around what that even means.

Meet the original Bluestockings, a group of women intellectuals. Their name would eventually become a misogynist epithet -- but it didn't start that way.

China's “one-child” policy has been relaxed, and now married couples may have two children. But according to scholars, the damage is already done.