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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....

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

Sex & Gender

Gimme My Poppers Or Else

Gay sex in New Zealand and the backsliding of an apparently permissive society

June 27, 2022 • by Samuel Te Kani

It’s no secret gay sex and drugs go together like vodka and soda, or vodka and cranberry, or vodka and my mouth. Pop the words “chem sex” into a Google search and you’ll get no end of salacious fear-mongering reportage barely concealing cultural assumptions of self-harm while peddling journalistic neutrality. ...

Sex & Gender

How Fetal Politics Stole Americans’ Reproductive Rights

An interview with Jennifer Holland about the origins and ethics of the anti-abortion movement

June 25, 2022 • by Claire Potter and Jennifer Holland

I interviewed Jennifer Holland, L.R. Brammer Jr. Presidential Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma about her book, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement (UC press, 2020). Holland describes the evolution of what she calls “fetal politics”—a political mov...

How Fetal Politics Stole Americans’ Reproductive Rights

Sex & Gender

What Unenumerated Rights Are Guaranteed in Samuel Alito’s World?

The Supreme Court’s majority may abort the right to privacy—but we’ll always have the right to secrecy and shame

June 13, 2022 • by Peter Nohrnberg

Like abortion, contraception has always existed in some form. And like abortion, contraception was also left unmentioned by the authors of the Constitution, who relied upon high infant mortality rates to take care of family planning....

What Unenumerated Rights Are Guaranteed in Samuel Alito’s World?

Sex & Gender

Anti-Trans Bills Are Driving a New Moral Panic

Ohio has now passed laws regulating participation in women’s sports so severe that cisgender girls may opt not to compete at all

June 6, 2022 • by Claire Potter

Don’t be a sucker. Fight trans athletes bans....

Anti-Trans Bills Are Driving a New Moral Panic

Feminism

Anarchafeminism

The urgent need for a feminism that does not create further hierarchies

May 16, 2022 • by Chiara Bottici

The more we searched for the “anarchafeminist tradition,” and the more we tried to identify the “anarchafeminist canon,” the less interested we were in it. While researching for this book, it became clear that the concept of an “anarchafeminist tradition,” let alone that of an “anarchafeminist canon,” is fraught with ...

Sex & Gender

Why do childfree women inspire so much ire?

A Q&A with the filmmaker behind “My So-Called Selfish Life”

May 11, 2022 • by Jill Filipovic

Historically, I think a lot more people would have preferred not to have children if they could have prevented a pregnancy. A stat I have heard is that something like half of all pregnancies in the US are not planned, so if half the people in this country are getting ...

Why do childfree women inspire so much ire?

Sex & Gender

Radical Republicans Are Birthing the Nation They Want—and Most Americans Don’t

Never forget that banning abortion has always been a minority position in this country, one that does not represent the will of the voters.

May 3, 2022 • by Claire Potter

Outlawing abortion is the outcome of a radical conservative minority. The success of this minority has been entirely driven by megadonors and organizations that create voter turnout through disinformation and motivating extremists. The notion that a cluster of cells that cannot survive outside a human host, one that has no ...

Radical Republicans Are Birthing the Nation They Want—and Most Americans Don’t

Sex & Gender

Remembering OutWrite

Something extraordinary happens when queer writers gather together

March 15, 2022 • by Julie Enszer

How did OutWrite, the annual conference of queer writers come to be? Let’s time travel for a moment to back to the late 1980s and early 1990s and try to see the world through the eyes of queer people. AIDS is raging. In 1989, 14,646 HIV-infected people died; in 1990, 27,311. ...

Sex & Gender

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

Gimme My Poppers Or Else

Gay sex in New Zealand and the backsliding of an apparently permissive society

How Fetal Politics Stole Americans’ Reproductive Rights

An interview with Jennifer Holland about the origins and ethics of the anti-abortion movement

What Unenumerated Rights Are Guaranteed in Samuel Alito’s World?

The Supreme Court’s majority may abort the right to privacy—but we’ll always have the right to secrecy and shame

Anti-Trans Bills Are Driving a New Moral Panic

Ohio has now passed laws regulating participation in women’s sports so severe that cisgender girls may opt not to compete at all

Anarchafeminism

The urgent need for a feminism that does not create further hierarchies

Why do childfree women inspire so much ire?

A Q&A with the filmmaker behind “My So-Called Selfish Life”

Radical Republicans Are Birthing the Nation They Want—and Most Americans Don’t

Never forget that banning abortion has always been a minority position in this country, one that does not represent the will of the voters.

Remembering OutWrite

Something extraordinary happens when queer writers gather together

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