170. Phrenology and Karl M. Baer

Would you pay $10 for a skull reading? Hayley introduces us to the Buzzfeed personality test of the Victorian Era: phrenology! Hopefully your organ of murder isn’t too bulgy. Then, Kat tells the incredible life story of Karl M. Baer. An intersex man who underwent the world’s first gender affirming surgery, all while being a feminist icon and Jewish activist king. 

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Phrenology Sources:

https://www.simplypsychology.org/phrenology.html

https://www.yorku.ca/rsheese2/1010/gall.htm

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/feb/05/django-unchained-racist-science-phrenology

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/facing-a-bumpy-history-144497373/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR9x3KVmE48

https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/physiognomy-the-beautiful-pseudoscience/

https://www.redcross.org/about-us/who-we-are/history/clara-barton.html#:~:text=life%20and%20legacy-,Clarissa%20Harlowe%20Barton%2C%20known%20as%20Clara%2C%20is%20one%20of%20the,for%20the%20next%2023%20years.

Karl M. Baer Sources: 

https://www.makingqueerhistory.com/articles/2022/12/11/karl-m-baer

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2015-12-05/ty-article/.premium/the-first-sex-change-surgery-in-history/0000017f-f3fd-d5bd-a17f-f7ffa4970000?v=1687269610864

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_M._Baer

https://isna.org/faq/what_is_intersex/