Celebrating public sexuality is an important step toward a future free of racism and homophobia.

It’s a much better question than the obsession with asking why.

Recent efforts to commemorate Laura Bassi—a pioneering physicist in eighteenth-century Italy—often say more about us than the world of women in science.

The penalties of gender and sexual violence are not equally distributed, but psyche violence is genderless.

Sarah Schulman’s history of ACT UP NY shows how AIDS activists forced the government to accept that they mattered.

The stakes of religious exemption challenges.

The pandemic will shutter many gay bars. Should we mourn their passing?

The Sacred Black Masculine in My Life

The pandemic has foregrounded women's exploitation in the home and challenged feminism to once again go beyond middle-class concerns. 

Unlike gender inequality, racial inequality primarily accumulates across generations. Transracial identification undermines collective reckoning with that injustice.

On Ashura, Shi’a Muslims grieve the Prophet’s grandson. But with Iran crippled by COVID-19 and U.S. sanctions, it was also an occasion this year to mourn the country’s deaths from disease and despair.

Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers was a mutually demanding collaboration.

Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.

Some gender equality initiatives help to reinforce exclusion rather than dismantle it.

Current contempt for age gap relationships serves to strip both men and women of their agency. 

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling is only the latest twist in the convoluted legal history of women’s reproductive rights. The future looks no less partisan.

Cancel culture can go wrong, but that doesn't mean the objections of far-right trolls and social justice activists should be mistaken for having equal worth.

Race in the fashion industry.

A new book decries moral panics over sexual danger. But in thinking about the MeToo movement, we should not conflate real abuse with mere scandal.

Manipulations of public sentiment not only harm their intended target; they can set back decades of progressive politics.

Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment.