The Answer is No: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” and Our Evolving Understanding of Consent Put down the milk and cookies and gird your loins, guys, gals, and non-binary pals. The War on Christmas is here again. Starbucks released their holiday cups, alleged serial sexual harasser Bill O’Reilly is on Twitter […]
Every night in America, there are heroes patrolling our streets, keeping them safe and clean. They don’t do it for the fame or the glory. They don’t even do it for the soft, internal glow of altruism. They just do it because they’re Opossums and they’re hungry. As the only […]
Say what you will about medieval Europeans, but they knew their way around crude humor. Whether the jokes be scatological or sexual, they were often exceedingly dirty and delivered with the same gusto as a fifth grader telling a brand new fart joke. For most of the middle ages, most […]
While many contemporaries regarded Dr. John Harvey Kellogg as a respected visionary, modern depictions tend to paint him as masturbation-obsessed wackadoodle. But Dr. Kellogg was so much more than that – he was a racist, eugenicist, masturbation-obsessed wackadoodle who had some admittedly good advice about dietary fiber. Starting in the […]
If you ever need to pick a fight with a bunch of 17th and 18th century European nerds, I suggest asking them where they think babies come from. That’s almost guaranteed to get them all riled up. People around the world had been documenting their observations of and theories about […]
We just turned 3 years old this past Saturday AND we hit 1,000 followers on Instagram! So today’s throwback Thursday post is a brief history of UN|HUSHED’s published works. In 2017 Karen Rayne, PhD, CSE and Jessica Smarr, MPH took the curricula that our group has been teaching for over […]
Douglas Russell, curator of avian eggs and nests at London’s Natural History Museum, was shuffling through an old file one day in 2011 or 2012 (the exact date is lost in the annals of time) when he happened upon a pamphlet stamped “NOT FOR PUBLICATION.” He immediately consumed this titillating, […]
