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Feminism

Our Bodies, Ourselves, Online

Historian and activist Saniya Lee Ghanoui explains how a feminist classic entered the twenty-first century

October 27, 2022 • by Saniya Lee Ghanoui and Claire Potter

When we started, we knew we needed experts from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Women and gender-expansive people from different races brought their own perspectives, personal and expert, and that would help us address racial health disparities. ...

Higher Ed

“God Is Dead”

And other memories of coming of age gay and Catholic in the sixties

October 12, 2022 • by John D’Emilio

I was flabbergasted. The idea that someone not only didn’t believe in God but also had grown up without God was something I couldn’t take in. All I could think was, “Wow. Without God, he’d never have to worry about whether he was going to hell, whether he’d make it ...

Gender

What Does It Mean to Be “Authentic”?

Skye C. Cleary chats with Luis Jaramillo about her new book on Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy-from-life method

October 11, 2022 • by Skye C. Cleary and Luis Jaramillo

Finding your “authentic self” is often taken to mean: “Let’s turn inward and look for the blueprint that’s going to tell us what decisions we should make and that will make us happy.” But Beauvoir argued that we’re humans who are always growing, always changing....

Sex & Gender

The Women Who Built Playboy

An interview with podcast host Amy Rose Spiegel

October 6, 2022 • by Amy Rose Spiegel and Mette Kierstein

Women who were really responsible for shaping Playboy were Hefner’s closest confidants; they worked in the clubs and interacted with the magazine in ways that changed the trajectories of their lives....

Gender

From the Vault: Labor Pains

“One classmate litigator closed up her practice, left a tape of bird songs on her office answering machine, and enrolled in art school.”

September 13, 2022 • by Joseph Matthews

Since I hadn’t been able to get Angela to talk about what trial lawyering may have done to her sense of herself, her “identity” as a woman, I shifted to a different lens: Did she feel, I asked, that the presence of more women lawyers was humanizing the criminal law?...

New York City

Good Jewish Boys Gone Bad

Did the sexual monstrosity of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein have cultural roots?

August 31, 2022 • by Mitchell Abidor

Harvey Weinstein—like Jeffrey Epstein—was the product not of a liberated sexuality gone haywire but of a liberated sexuality that passed them by when it mattered most. ...

Sex & Gender

A Day at a Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic in a Berkeley Bathhouse

When under threat, queer communities across the country survive, thrive, and build networks of care

August 31, 2022 • by Will Clark

What I saw in the monkeypox line outside of a bathhouse in Berkeley was a testimony to the way queer communities across the country survive, thrive, and build networks of care when under threat....

A Day at a Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic in a Berkeley Bathhouse

Feminism

When Fascism Is Female

In Europe, right-wing feminism is on the rise—and nationalist women are taking power

August 31, 2022 • by Sophie Boulter

This fascist “fire” that Meloni references and kindles is burning throughout Europe, and she is not alone in tending to its flames....

Feminism

There Can Be No Nonviolence in Human Gestation

Feminist scholar Sophie Lewis talks to Natasha Lennard about reproductive freedom and why we can embrace abortion as a form of killing

August 30, 2022 • by Natasha Lennard and Sophie Lewis

Even if all the people who currently “mother” in society were suddenly magically treated with respect by courts and medical doctors, left alone by cops and social workers, supported and assisted to become parents, and lavished with strings-free checks courtesy of the state, it would still be necessary to deprivatize ...

There Can Be No Nonviolence in Human Gestation

Sex & Gender

What Happens When You Lose Abortion Rights and How to Win Them Back

6 lessons from Poland

August 22, 2022 • by Agnieszka Graff

To take back women’s rights, we need power, commitment and determination. And we need to be unapologetic in claiming the obvious: women are human beings with moral agency and the right to control our own bodies....

What Happens When You Lose Abortion Rights and How to Win Them Back

Sex & Gender

Seeking (and Shaping) Queer Space

With only four lesbian bars left in New York City, where—and how—can Queer community be found?

July 26, 2022 • by Radhika Rajkumar

With only four lesbian bars left in New York City, where—ah how—can Queer community be found?...

Sex & Gender

It’s Time for Democrats to Claim the Moral High Ground

We need creative, large-scale, intersectional solutions that put out many small fires all at once and fundamentally change the way our system works

June 28, 2022 • by Hannah Leffingwell

In my class on the history of sexuality and gender, I’m trying to teach my students that every one of these labels is an argument with a past....

Sex & Gender

Our Bodies, Ourselves, Online

Historian and activist Saniya Lee Ghanoui explains how a feminist classic entered the twenty-first century

“God Is Dead”

And other memories of coming of age gay and Catholic in the sixties

What Does It Mean to Be “Authentic”?

Skye C. Cleary chats with Luis Jaramillo about her new book on Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy-from-life method

The Women Who Built Playboy

An interview with podcast host Amy Rose Spiegel

From the Vault: Labor Pains

“One classmate litigator closed up her practice, left a tape of bird songs on her office answering machine, and enrolled in art school.”

Good Jewish Boys Gone Bad

Did the sexual monstrosity of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein have cultural roots?

A Day at a Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic in a Berkeley Bathhouse

When under threat, queer communities across the country survive, thrive, and build networks of care

When Fascism Is Female

In Europe, right-wing feminism is on the rise—and nationalist women are taking power

There Can Be No Nonviolence in Human Gestation

Feminist scholar Sophie Lewis talks to Natasha Lennard about reproductive freedom and why we can embrace abortion as a form of killing

What Happens When You Lose Abortion Rights and How to Win Them Back

6 lessons from Poland

Seeking (and Shaping) Queer Space

With only four lesbian bars left in New York City, where—and how—can Queer community be found?

It’s Time for Democrats to Claim the Moral High Ground

We need creative, large-scale, intersectional solutions that put out many small fires all at once and fundamentally change the way our system works

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