Gender & Sexuality

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.

The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act is an important step, but activist Mary Kathryn Nagle argues that only full restoration of Indigenous sovereignty will stop the epidemic.

Why groundbreaking queer studies scholar Leo Bersani rejected the word “queer.”

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

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.

Some feminists think we can improve motherhood. But what if abolishing it is the only way to alleviate its problems?

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

In the 1970s, gay and lesbian West Germans sought to forge political solidarity from sexual identity.

The Supreme Court recognizes the right of consenting adults to an erotic life free of state control. Given that, it shouldn't matter whether sex is your job.

After Roe v. Wade, Angela Davis wrote about how the reproductive rights movement was failing women of color. As Roe is dismantled, her diagnosis is more crucial than ever.

The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.

Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it?

On the uncanny relationship between film and reality.

The sex wars of the 1980s were about much more than pornography.

My patients and I don’t use words like “choice” or “viability.”

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.

Porn performers have a unique vision for labor justice and erotic fulfillment, but they face draconian regulation and exploitative work conditions.

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.