Feminist arguments against body modification are a dead end.

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.

Trans-inclusive policies are essential, but efforts to establish them must not lose sight of the structural oppressions that trans people face. 

Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.

What would it look like if we put our desires at the center of our politics?

Harm reduction strategies, like those pioneered by queer men of color, have the best chance of stopping this disease.

The gender politics of Positive Psychology valorize the nuclear family and heterosexual monogamy.

Remembrances of the late author have focused on her best-selling Nickel and Dimed with only rare acknowledgement of the major roles she played in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.

Cruising extends the political value of the city as a space that brings us into contact with people who seem unlike us until we realize our shared desires.

Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.

Sex workers are labor's vanguard. The left ignores them at its peril.

The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people. A new book considers how gender became so integral to bureaucracy.

A new book offers a compelling, if imperfect, account of the bad feelings with which trans people often struggle.

How four women defended ethical thought from the legacy of positivism.

In the fight for LGBTQ equality, the law is often the last thing to change.

Writing from a city under siege, a founder of the landmark Kharkiv Center for Gender Studies reflects on the importance of women’s studies after the USSR collapsed, and what it helps us understand about Putin’s war on Ukraine.

Recent works depict the agonies and rage of being a low-wage housekeeper or nanny. But all fail to identify capitalism itself as the culprit.

On feminism, sex, and the ethics of desire.

Gender rarely lives up to our expectations, and a lot of what we think of as gender actually has more to do with race and money.

Amidst a boys’ club of ’70s-era comics, Shary Flenniken’s Trots and Bonnie was unique for its feminist depiction of the political and sexual awakening of young women.

Yes-means-yes will not encourage good sex. It will not discourage good sex. It is irrelevant to good sex.

Lily Tomlin and Julia Garner in Grandma.

Without sexual liberation, sexual oppression and sexual violence will continue.

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One report on purported elder abuse describes victims as dependent captives “in highly sexualized environments.”

“Dear Sir, I don’t like the way you crossed me out.”

Ever since the Indiana legislature passed its version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, lawmakers there have been on the defensive.

During the exhaustive search for Etan, black children were disappearing in Atlanta.