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Sex Is Not the Problem with Sex Work

Under capitalism, you don’t have to love your job to want to keep it.

Juno Mac, Molly Smith

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Gender & Sexuality

Is Pete Buttigieg the Face of Stonewall?

The press has crowned Buttigieg the inheritor of Stonewall’s legacy, but this doesn’t square with what we know of Stonewall activists and the world they hoped to create.

Micki McElya

Gender & Sexuality, Science & Nature

Who's Your Daddy?

The meaning of fatherhood remains elusive, even in the age of DNA-based paternity testing.

Nara Milanich

Gender & Sexuality, Reading Lists

Sex Work Is Work

—and why consent isn’t the same thing as good sex. An International Whores Day reading list.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Gender & Sexuality

Toward a Democratic Hedonism

Debate over Title IX affirmative consent standards has assumed that consent is the best basis for a feminist sexual politics. But what if it isn’t?

Joseph J. Fischel

Gender & Sexuality, Reading Lists

Abortion’s Past and Future

“I was a teenager back then, pregnant and desperate. Too terrified to make the midnight trip to the back alley.”

Matt Lord, Boston Review

Gender & Sexuality

Gay Liberation Behind the Iron Curtain

A gay golden age in East Germany reveals that Soviet politics were more dynamic than we admit—and that gay rights has less to do with democracy than we tend to assume.

Samuel Clowes Huneke

Gender & Sexuality, Literature & Culture

“More Queer Writing, Please”

Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is being celebrated as the vanguard of a new trans lit. In this interview, Lawlor talks about Paul’s origins, trans identity, and the future of queer literature.

Andrea Lawlor, Spencer Quong

Gender & Sexuality

Finally Seeing Andrea

Andrea Dworkin is remembered for saying that all sex is rape—even though she never said that. A new collection reintroduces the radical feminist to the next generation of “nasty women.”

Jeremy Lybarger

Gender & Sexuality

Every Woman Is a Working Woman

Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards. 

Silvia Federici, Jill Richards

Gender & Sexuality

Those Left Behind When #LoveWon

Did the success of gay marriage erode the radical potential of queer politics?

Hugh Ryan

Gender & Sexuality

A History of Cyborg Sex, 2018–73

How sex with robots became safer—and better—than sex with actual men.

Cathy O'Neil

Gender & Sexuality

Aging into Feminism

Many Amazon holiday orders will be fulfilled by homeless retirees, America’s newest precariat. Taking better care of them is part of feminism’s next big challenge.

James G. Chappel

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