The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

A long line of films tracks the solidarities that arise when prohibition makes friendship too perilous.

Chantal Johnson’s debut novel, Post-Traumatic, makes the case that we can—by moving away from representations of individual suffering.

Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.

Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.

Feminist arguments against body modification are a dead end.

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.

Freedom means a world where how I parent is simply mundane rather than overburdened with meaning. 

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.

Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.

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.

It is time to stop talking about Roe as the touchstone for abortion rights and to start imagining what law and policy can do to facilitate affordable and available services.

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

“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents' rights” before the interests of children.

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.

Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.

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.

The right to reproductive health and agency is a compelling state interest.

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.