The Constitutional Conflationists: On Abigail Shrier’s “Irreversible Damage” and the Dangerous Absurdity of Anti-Trans Trolls
Sarah Fonseca on how Abigail Shrier's trolling interpretation of the United States Constitution threatens to put millions of kids’ lives in jeopardy....
One Woman’s Century
Evan Pheiffer offers a portrait of his grandmother, Jayne, whose life spanned a tumultuous century....
“Circle Jerk” in the Square: An Interview with Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, and Ariel Sibert
Kyle Turner talks to Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, Ariel Sibert, the creators behind "Circle Jerk."...
Who’s Afraid of Transgender Kids?
Michael M. Weinstein looks at Sharon Liese’s new HBO documentary, “Transhood,” which explores the lives of children living beyond the gender binary....
Beheaded
As a young woman, I fell in love with a man who owned a machete. He terrorized me for over a year. I have no doubt he would have killed me if I had stayed....
A Sprawling Study Tracks the Global State of LGBT People
Michael Nava reviews Mark Gevisser’s “The Pink Line,” a study of LGBTQ struggles for civil rights across the world....
How to Be a Girl Detective
The new film “Enola Holmes” illustrates a cultural shift in how girlhood is conceptualized and understood....
Christmas in October
Nancy Conyers on coming out during the holiday season....
Vernacular Pornography
Is sexual folk art a democratic repository of human creativity?...
The Roots of African American AIDS Activism: On Dan Royles’s “To Make the Wounded Whole”
Charles O’Malley on the innovative, urgent history of Black HIV/AIDS activism in Dan Royles’s “To Make the Wounded Whole.”...
Against Identification: The Abject Camp of “The Witches” (1990)
Charles Ramsay McCrory explores the intertwining affects of identification, attraction, and abjections in the 1990 children’s horror film, “The Witches.”...
High Femme Camp Antics
Breaking down High Femme Camp Antics, both classic and personal...
