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Accusations around sex and race have caused controversy and change at a major LARP community.
plague

Racism and Sexism Claims Shake a Modern Fantasy Village

In North America's largest medieval-style town, it’s not just architecture that needs some 21st-century renovation.
Ellery Weil November 13, 2024
This image depicts a 1288 judicial duel in Bern, Switzerland, the only recorded instance of a man and woman fighting in a trial by combat: The woman ultimately emerged victorious.
medieval

Why Medieval Women Sometimes Fought in Bloody Trials by Combat

In cases of rape and sexual violence, women had few other avenues for seeking justice.
Asia London Palomba August 23, 2024
In 2018, artist Marisela Barrera fielded calls as San Antonio's ghostly Donkey Lady.
haunted

Why Are There So Many Female Ghosts?

Female ghosts seem to dominate the afterlife. Whether the spirits are real or not, the reasons for the disparity could be revealing.
Nathaniel Scharping October 6, 2023
Michael Cleary claimed the human Bridget had been abducted when walking through a nearby "fairy fort," like this one in County Roscommon.
murder

Podcast: The "Changeling" Murder of Bridget Cleary

In March 1895, a husband murdered his wife after accusing her of being replaced by an evil fairy.
The Podcast Team September 12, 2023
April's pollenpocalypse hanging over the city of Durham, North Carolina.
forests

'Botanical Sexism' Could Be Behind Your Seasonal Allergies

More diversity in city trees would probably be a good thing.
Sabrina Imbler May 17, 2019
An illustration of the famous Pie-Girl Dinner from <em>The New York World</em>.
murder

The Girl Who Jumped Out of a Pie and Into a Gilded Age Morality Tale

Susie Johnson sparked America's obsession with erotic cake dancing.
Reina Gattuso April 25, 2019
The memorial stone.
Kramfors N, Sweden

Bålberget Memorial

This serene wooded hilltop has a dark history as the climactic point of the Swedish witch trials.
The monument.
Zurich, Switzerland

Chaiselongue

This colossal couch is an unlikely monument to Europe's first female Doctor of Law.
The iconic Gibson Girl, drawn by Charles Dana Gibson, pinned her hair up on her head, with hatpins to keep her hat in place.
sexism

Before Mace, a Hatpin Was an Unescorted Lady’s Best Defense

Accessories to assault.
Natasha Frost October 10, 2017
The death of a (mythical) Viking warrior woman.
vikings

Found: Evidence That a Lavish Burial Honored a Viking Warrior Woman

Turns out they weren't just myths.
Sarah Laskow September 8, 2017
A 16th-century German woodcut depicting the uselessness of chastity belts. (They can have more than one key.)
medieval

Everything You've Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie

Including their very existence.
Sarah Laskow July 12, 2017
politics

What 'Locker Room Vulgarity' Meant in the 1984 Presidential Campaign

Different times.
Erik Shilling October 11, 2016
sexism

What Happened to 'The Most Liberated Woman in America'?

Barbara Williamson co-founded one of the most famous radical sex experiments of the 1970s. Then she got wild.
Alex Mar June 7, 2016
The Gates of the Herbertstraße.
Hamburg, Germany

Herbertstraße

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.
statues

Statues We Love to Hate

Kevin Lo May 12, 2014