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The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story

The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story

The fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich.

2025

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Brandy Schillace

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The Letter

Feb 20

A collection of letters stamped from 1944, different stamps and colors, CC licsense

Feb 20

Not My President Day Protests

Coverage collected from socials for the 50501 “no kings” day

Feb 17

Not My President Day Protests

Feb 17

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We Are At War

And legacy media asks you not to pay attention

Feb 5

We Are At War

Feb 5

No, Academic Writing isn’t Getting Harder to Read

— But Serious Journalism is Getting Harder to Find

Jan 24

No, Academic Writing isn’t Getting Harder to Read

Jan 24

Published in
The Quantastic Journal

American Ingenuity Beat the Polio Outbreak—So Why Risk Letting It Return?

We should, none of us, consent to going back to the past…

Jan 2

A black and white photo: up close, a sugar cube on a spoon being impregnated by the vaccine. In the background, two small children look on

Jan 2

That Time I Made JD Vance Sad

As we head into the final days for election 2024, I would like to share an embarrassing moment for the ‘creepy’ candidate

Oct 23, 2024

That Time I Made JD Vance Sad

Oct 23, 2024

Once Bitten: the Silent epidemic of Long Lyme Disease

What if one of the worst epidemics of chronic illness was also it’s most ignored? What if that wasn’t entirely an accident?

Oct 1, 2023

Once Bitten: the Silent epidemic of Long Lyme Disease

Oct 1, 2023

Autism Out Loud

A coming out story about disability

Oct 1, 2023

Autism Out Loud

Oct 1, 2023

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Archive

Mystery instructions, disappearing SD cards, and hidden elevators make my job feel like espionage

Sep 19, 2023

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Archive

Sep 19, 2023

The God of Mathematics

If you looked carefully at the night sky, and you did so every night for a year, you would notice something unusual.

Sep 15, 2023

The God of Mathematics

Sep 15, 2023

Unremembered Girls

How the Victorian War on Women led to London’s First Serial Killer

Sep 8, 2023

Unremembered Girls

Sep 8, 2023

The Future of Clones

Part two of Chasing Eve — have we really cloned a human?

Aug 21, 2023

The Future of Clones

Aug 21, 2023

Chasing Eve:

Is Cloning the Future?

Aug 11, 2023

Chasing Eve:

Aug 11, 2023

Closing the Loop

The Human-Machine Interface and the Race to Turn Thought into Motion

Aug 9, 2023

Closing the Loop

Aug 9, 2023

Pig Brains and Butterfly Goo

The strange science of life, death, and consciousness

Aug 9, 2023

Pig Brains and Butterfly Goo

Aug 9, 2023

Conservatives weaponize autism in their fight against transgender

What is happening and what can be done. A conversation between Brandy Schillace and Eric Garcia

Apr 7, 2023

alphabet blocks of many colors spelling the word transgender

Apr 7, 2023

Published in
Elemental

The Brain as It Lay Dying

Science reveals that a flash of brain waves occurs at the point of (and even after) death; what can that tell us about life?

Mar 25, 2022

The Brain as It Lay Dying

Mar 25, 2022

Published in
Elemental

How To Hold On in Hard Times

Preserving your mental health when the world is on fire

Mar 15, 2022

How To Hold On in Hard Times

Mar 15, 2022

Published in
Elemental

Anti-Trans Bill Endangers Lives for a Vote

Medical systems are being hijacked for political gain, and the health of our children is at stake

Mar 10, 2022

Anti-Trans Bill Endangers Lives for a Vote

Mar 10, 2022

Published in
Elemental

It’s Okay to Be Fat

The stigma surrounding weight gain has blinded us to the real problems of health care

Mar 8, 2022

It’s Okay to Be Fat

Mar 8, 2022

Brandy L Schillace

Brandy L Schillace

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(skil-AH-chay) Author in #history, #science, & #medicine. Bylines: SciAm, Globe&Mail, WIRED, WSJ. EIC Medical Humanities. Host of Peculiar Book Club. she/her

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