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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 have the best chance of stopping this disease.
The gender politics of Positive Psychology valorize the nuclear family and heterosexual monogamy.
The late author of Nickel and Dimed played a major role 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 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.
Tinder and OkCupid should drop the gender binary. Doing so would help all users—queer and straight alike.
In the fight for LGBTQ equality, the law is often the last thing to change.
Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as threats to child welfare.
On the importance of women’s studies after the USSR collapsed, and what it helps us understand about Putin’s war on Ukraine.
How the Kremlin weaponizes “traditional values,” portraying LGBT rights as existential threats to the nation.
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