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.  https://linktr.ee/NightClassy 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/