Gender & Sexuality
Andrea Dworkin Was a Trans Ally
On the fifteenth anniversary of Dworkin’s death, her longtime partner observes that she is often invoked to support beliefs she actively repudiated in her work.
Love One Another or Die
During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care.
Fighting for Public Health
The United States has never understood the connection between community and personal well-being.
Science Won’t Settle Trans Rights
Appeals to the biological facts conceal a deeper contest over political equality—and scientific authority itself.
Halloween and Stranger Danger
Bizarre restrictions are levied against people on the sex offense registry on Halloween. But do they actually make children safer or simply reveal what we fear?
The Critical Bite of Cultural Relativism
The pioneers of cultural anthropology taught not just how to study other cultures, but how to criticize their own.
‘Flexible’ Family Leave Is Lousy Feminism
Men can still opt out of these policies. The state needs to take more coercive action.
The Origins of Sexual Healing
How the song emerged from Gaye’s struggles with faith, drug addiction, and childhood abuse.
What’s Wrong with Queer History?
In our search for a useful past, we need to be careful whom we name as the heroes of queer history.
Pleasure and Danger
The dichotomy between two kinds of feminism—one fighting for sexual liberation and one fighting for equality—is false.
Who’s Your Daddy?
Despite promising a golden age of certainty, DNA-based paternity science has failed to settle the meaning of fatherhood.
Gay Liberation Behind the Iron Curtain
Soviet politics were more dynamic than we admit—and gay rights has less to do with democracy than we tend to assume.
“More Queer Writing, Please”
Novelist Andrea Lawlor talks trans identity, the origins of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, and the future of queer literature.
Finally Seeing Andrea
A collection of Andrea Dworkin’s writings reintroduces the radical feminist to the next generation.
Those Left Behind When #LoveWon
Did the success of gay marriage erode the radical potential of queer politics?
A History of Cyborg Sex, 2018–73
How sex with robots became safer—and better—than sex with actual men.
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