Gender & Sexuality

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Sex — and Everything Else
A new essay by Katherine Angel from the High/Low issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal, No.29.
Katherine AngelMar 15, 2021
- Gender & Sexuality
- LARB Lit
Looking for Another Party: The Missed Opportunities of Zak Salih’s “Let’s Get Back to the Party”
Joshua Gutterman Tranen on Zak Salih’s “Let’s Get Back to the Party” and the need for more nuanced portraits of the staggering sweep of modern gay life.
Joshua Gutterman TranenMar 14, 2021
- Fiction
- Gender & Sexuality
Documenting the Queer Latinx Ordinary: On Reynaldo Rivera’s “Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City”
Marcos Gonsalez on how Reynaldo Rivera’s documentary photos of queer Latinx Los Angeles emphasizes the power of the exuberant ordinary.
Marcos GonsalezMar 10, 2021
- Gender & Sexuality
Flavors of Freak
From the bondage expert to the innocently curious, there’s something in “Kink” for everyone.
Rafael FrumkinMar 7, 2021
- Fiction
- Gender & Sexuality
Writing Toward Communal Responsibility: A Conversation with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
In “The Freezer Door,” Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore questions everything.
M. BunaMar 4, 2021
- Gender & Sexuality
- Poetry
On Digital Queerness: A Conversation with Chris Stedman
Matt Wille interviews Chris Stedman on the intersections between queerness, the internet, and the search for a real self.
Matt WilleFeb 28, 2021
- Gender & Sexuality
- Science & Technology
Pronominal Strife
Bryan A. Garner considers "What’s Your Pronoun?," the recently published book by Dennis Baron.
Bryan A. GarnerFeb 27, 2021
Black Germans and the Politics of Diaspora: On Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”
Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement.”
Samuel Clowes HunekeFeb 25, 2021
Subverting the Canon of Patriarchy: Lesya Ukrainka’s Revisionist Mythmaking
Sasha Dovzhyk celebrates the radical feminism of the great Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka on the 150th anniversary of her birth.
Sasha DovzhykFeb 25, 2021
On the Limits of Sexual Freedom: Vanessa Springora’s “Consent: A Memoir”
A searing French memoir gives voice to a victim of sexual abuse, and provokes a crisis of conscience in the country.
Elsa CourtFeb 17, 2021
Letters from the Heart
Simone de Beauvoir’s advice to the lovelorn.
Robert ZaretskyFeb 15, 2021
Finding a Forgotten Artist
Rediscovering the lost lithography of Alice Mary Chambers.
Thomas McLeanFeb 13, 2021
- Art & Architecture
- Gender & Sexuality