
Stop Erasing Transgender Stories From History
Remembering that human sex and gender lie across a spectrum in the past is vital to curbing violence toward gender-nonconforming people today.
Remembering that human sex and gender lie across a spectrum in the past is vital to curbing violence toward gender-nonconforming people today.
Botanist Carl Linnaeus' classification system has been adopted around the globe—but have we adequately reckoned with how his ideas about humans laid the groundwork for scientific racism?
Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, is ramping up its efforts to inhabit Mars, raising crucial questions about who gets left out of fantasies of space colonization.
An Ethiopian-born biological anthropologist and father dissects the “myth of race” and reflects on his own deepening understanding of racism in the U.S.
An anthropologist explores how her current study of COVID-19 and childbirth reveals profound and amplified problems with the United States’ maternity system.
There is an urgent need to digitally capture the planet’s surface, providing a record for future ecologists, archaeologists, and historians. The Earth Archive project plans to do just that.