Gender & Sexuality

Be Wary of the Techno-fix

Emre downplays the issues of safety, effectiveness, and ethics.

  • Marcy Darnovsky

Sex Is Not the Problem with Sex Work

Under capitalism, you don’t have to love your job to want to keep it.

  • Juno Mac
  • Molly Smith

This Is Not a Witch Hunt

Trump would do well to remember that it is only a witch hunt if the accusations are untrue.

  • Jonathan Beecher Field

Weinbaum on Emre

Missing from Emre is a sustained examination of race.

  • Alys Eve Weinbaum

Extreme Pregnancy

Having a child is a very stupid idea.

  • Andrea Long Chu

Mothering

The gender of gestating is ambiguous.

  • Sophie Lewis

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A Right to Reproduce

A positive right to reproduce.

  • Merve Emre

Selling Hope

Many ARTs are unsafe and often end in failure.

  • Miriam Zoll

All Reproduction Is Assisted

Feminism needs better reproductive strategies.

  • Merve Emre
with responses from
  • Sophie Lewis
  • Andrea Long Chu
  • Alys Eve Weinbaum
  • Annie Menzel
  • Chris Kaposy
  • Marcy Darnovsky
  • Irina Aristarkhova
  • Diane Tober
  • Miriam Zoll

Feminist Paradoxes

We should reject the assisted/ natural dichotomy.

  • Diane Tober

Suspending Feminist Judgment

Life is complicated, and Emre leaves room for vulnerability.

  • Irina Aristarkhova

Neoliberal Perfectionism

ARTs encourage an ableist norm.

  • Chris Kaposy

The Violence of the Natural

Racism is central to reproductive injustice.

  • Annie Menzel

Once and Future Feminist

What can tech do for feminism? Our latest issue looks at the promises and the perils. Buy your copy today.

The Trump Doctrine and the Gender Politics of Power

Both at home and abroad, Trump deploys a politics of misogyny—lifted right from Machiavelli.

  • Bonnie Honig

Going to Work in Mommy’s Basement

From laundry to meal prep, apps tend to mimic maternal care. Is this good for women?

  • Sarah Sharma

When Gays Wanted to Liberate Children

Seventies activists wanted to emancipate kids and destroy the nuclear family—so how did we end up with gay marriage instead?

  • Michael Bronski

The Erotics of Mentorship

The best teaching is always intimate. Today’s universities make it difficult to talk about that.

  • Marta Figlerowicz
  • Ayesha Ramachandran

Guns in the Family

A childhood steeped in guns shows that toxic masculinity and racism are at the heart of U.S. gun culture.

  • Walter Johnson

Toward a Trans* Feminism

Feminism and trans* activism have been at odds for decades. They don’t need to be.

  • Jack Halberstam

The Last Gay Liberationist

The death of Charley Shively marks the end of an era, but his revolutionary ideas for a just society resonate now more than ever.

  • Michael Bronski

2017’s Most-Loved Stories on Gender and Sexuality

From #MeToo to Milo Yiannopoulos, this has been the year of gender trouble.

  • Boston Review

Will Feminism’s Past Mistakes Haunt #MeToo?

#MeToo must go beyond the demand for punishment.

  • Judith Levine

Sky Veins of Potosí

A tale of forbidden love in an age when corporations have replaced government.

  • Jordy Rosenberg
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