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...
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.
Karl M. Baer Sources:
https://www.makingqueerhistory.com/articles/2022/12/11/karl-m-baer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_M._Baer
https://isna.org/faq/what_is_intersex/