Gender & Sexuality

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

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  Making Something That Feels Good to Read: An Interview with Ari Yarwood

  Colin Beineke talks to graphic novel editor Ari Yarwood.

  Colin BeinekeJun 6, 2020

  • Comics

  • Gender & Sexuality

• Queer Empire: On the 40th Anniversary of “The Empire Strikes Back”

  Rebecca Harrison examines the queer credentials of “The Empire Strikes Back” on its 40th anniversary.

  Rebecca HarrisonMay 21, 2020

  • Film

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Greg Youmans on the Pathbreaking Trans Media Art of 2008

  Greg Youmans reflects on the work of Kalup Linzy and Tara Mateik.

  Greg YoumansMay 17, 2020

  • Art & Architecture

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  The 20-Year Project: On “Choice Words: Writers on Abortion”

  Ellen Jones considers “Choice Words: Writers on Abortion,” a new anthology edited by Annie Finch.

  Ellen JonesMay 13, 2020

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Nonfiction

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  “Don’t Regret. Remember”: Frictions of History and Gender in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

  The French director’s brilliant 2019 film powerfully captures the paradoxes of female creativity and agency.

  Paris A. Spies-GansMay 11, 2020

  • Around the World

  • Film

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  The Queer Time of Paul Lisicky’s Provincetown

  Michael Valinsky on Paul Lisicky’s new memoir of his life in Provincetown during the peak of the HIV/AIDS crisis.

  Michael ValinskyMay 8, 2020

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Memoir & Essay

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  A Fate Worse Than Gravity: A Conversation with Ellen O’Connell Whittet

  A new memoir about the dangers of dance and love in the age of #MeToo.

  Aaron ShulmanMay 7, 2020

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Memoir & Essay

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  Unvicarious: Reading with Sam See

  What Sam See is looking for in the art he loves is something other than escape. He is seeking forms of shelter.

  Caleb SmithMay 3, 2020

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Literary Criticism

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  See/Eakins/Swimming

  On Sam See’s “queer mythologies” and Thomas Eakins’s "Swimming."

  Christopher LoobyMay 3, 2020

  • Art & Architecture

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Literary Criticism

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  Once More, with Feeling

  Sam See’s work will always be timely, in that it calls us to attend to the transformative power of the feelings that go into a work of literature

  Michael NorthMay 3, 2020

  • Art & Architecture

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Literary Criticism

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  Critical Love Studies

  Writing about Sam See today, I am stunned to discover that his thoughts have been hiding in plain sight among my own.

  Merve EmreMay 3, 2020

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Literary Criticism

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  Bodies on the Market

  A new sociological study of our culture of dating apps, casual hookups, and “radical personal freedom.”

  David LipsetMay 1, 2020

  • Cultural Studies

  • Gender & Sexuality