Gender & Sexuality

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

Travels in a Vanished City: On Timon Screech’s “Tokyo Before Tokyo” and Amy Stanley’s “Stranger in the Shogun’s City”
Paul Kreitman reviews Timon Screech’s “Tokyo Before Tokyo” and Amy Stanley’s “Stranger in the Shogun’s City.”
Paul KreitmanNov 11, 2020
Wrapped in Plastic: On Courtenay Stallings’s “Laura’s Ghost”
Sophia Stewart reviews “Laura’s Ghost,” a feminist-ethnographic collection revisiting the gender politics of “Twin Peaks,” the series and the film.
Sophia StewartNov 3, 2020
On Choice, Children, and Womanhood: A Conversation with Christa Parravani
Kelly Thompson talks with Christa Parravani about her new memoir, “Loved and Wanted.”
Kelly ThompsonOct 29, 2020
Unsafe Harbors: A Conversation with Nadia Terranova
The Italian novelist discusses embodiment and desire in fiction, and why she hates male feminists.
Lucia SenesiOct 27, 2020
On the Vote: Emma Goldman and Women’s Suffrage
On the centennial of the 19th Amendment, Emma Goldman reminds us that the vote is not a panacea.
Angela ShpolbergOct 24, 2020
The Butch Lesbian Sci-Fi Aesthetic: A Conversation With Tamsyn Muir
Mikaella Clements speaks with Tamsyn Muir about her Locked Tomb trilogy, lesbian romance, forging new directions in sci-fi, and finding her Kiwi voice
Mikaella ClementsOct 21, 2020
- Gender & Sexuality
- SF
A Journal of the Plague Decade: On Howard Cruse’s “Wendel”
Paul Morton revisits the late Howard Cruse's groundbreaking comic, "Wendel."
Paul MortonOct 10, 2020
- Comics
- Gender & Sexuality
A Cohort of One’s Own
Frances Lazare considers the friendships and fights of "The Equivalents" by Maggie Doherty and "No Modernism Without Lesbians" by Diana Souhami.
Frances LazareOct 9, 2020
I’d Rather Be a Witch Than a Warrior
The ending of “Mulan” reassures us that she goes on to become a “legend”; yet, are not such honorifics precisely society’s reward for one’s compliance?
Anne Anlin ChengOct 3, 2020
- Film
- Gender & Sexuality
Love Letters in Blood: On “Queer Communion: Ron Athey”
Bradford Nordeen takes “Queer Communion: Ron Athey,” edited by Amelia Jones and Andy Campbell.
Bradford NordeenSep 24, 2020
Lifting Voices in the Key of Blackqueer YES
Ashon Crawley explores the contours and radical challenge of a Blackqueer YES.
Ashon T. CrawleySep 22, 2020
- Gender & Sexuality
Ghosts on the Page: Alice Cary’s “Hagar: A Story of To-Day” and Other Lost Books
Reckoning with the ghosts of neglected women authors.
Leanne PhillipsSep 19, 2020
- Gender & Sexuality
- Literary Criticism