Gender & Sexuality

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

The One With(out) the Gender Binary: Rewatching “Friends” and “Coupling”
Sam Moore watches reruns of Friends and Couplings only to find two shows defined by their own rigid definitions of gender and sexuality.
Sam MooreSep 15, 2020
- Gender & Sexuality
- Television
Something That Would Be Remembered: On Two Women Noir Trailblazers
Kathleen Jones on two recent biographies of midcentury women of noir: producer Joan Harrison and actress Veronica Lake.
Kathleen B. JonesSep 14, 2020
Queer Homecoming: On Carter Sickels’s “The Prettiest Star”
Zach Shultz on queer homecoming in Appalachia and Cartel Sickel’s “The Prettiest Star.”
Zach ShultzSep 12, 2020
- Fiction
- Gender & Sexuality
Finding My Way: A Conversation with Alden Jones
Dinah Lenney talks with Alden Jones about her latest book, “The Wanting Was a Wilderness.”
Dinah LenneySep 4, 2020
Monstre Sacré: The Life and Times of Franklin E. Kameny
Michael Nava reviews “The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America,” Eric Cervini’s exhaustive new history.
Michael NavaAug 31, 2020
A Trans Boy Dreams of a Gender-Fluid World: A Conversation with Lexie Bean
A YA author discusses her new novel about transgender youth and social marginalization.
Sara-Kate AstroveAug 30, 2020
- Gender & Sexuality
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Unlearning a White American Dream: On Meredith Talusan’s “Fairest”
Michael Valinsky reviews Meredith Talusan’s memoir, “Fairest,” about growing up trans and albino in the Philippines and the United States.
Michael ValinskyAug 23, 2020
- Gender & Sexuality
- Memoir & Essay
A Progenitor of Second-Wave Feminism: On Selina Todd’s “Tastes of Honey”
Simon Lee reviews Selina Todd’s biography on British playwright Shelagh Delaney.
Simon LeeAug 21, 2020
The Politics of Rediscovery
By always relegating work by women artists to the zone of the neglected or forgotten, we risk only understanding them in this way.
Katie da Cunha LewinAug 17, 2020
Double Lives: On Louise Brooks’s “Thirteen Women in Films”
Maya Cantu puts actress Louise Brooks’s unpublished manuscript “Thirteen Women in Films” in conversation with the recent documentary “Silent and Forgotten.”
Maya CantuAug 15, 2020
On Dennis Cooper and Becoming-Nothing
Jonathan Alexander reviews "Wrong," the new biography of Dennis Cooper by Diarmuid Hester.
Jonathan AlexanderJul 29, 2020
My Lockdown with “Death in Venice”
"The pandemic has made me, once again, that sorry thing: a mere spectator of life." D. A. Miller on social distancing and "Death in Venice."
D. A. MillerJul 26, 2020
- Film
- Gender & Sexuality