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New York City

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

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....

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. ...

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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 ...

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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

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

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