Gender & Sexuality

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

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  The Defiant Muse

  Alice Blackhurst looks at "Portrait of a Lady on Fire," the latest film from Céline Sciamma.

  Alice BlackhurstDec 22, 2019

  • Around the World

  • Film

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  (Please Don’t Let Me Be) Misunderstood

  The urge to be seen forms the urgency of Cameron Awkward-Rich’s “Dispatch.”

  Stephanie BurtDec 10, 2019

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Poetry

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  Home: The Most Dangerous Place for Women

  Elaine Elinson reviews Rachel Louise Snyder's "No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us."

  Elaine ElinsonDec 8, 2019

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Law

• Inside the Fashion Cycle

  What the fashion cycle teaches us about aging and disposability.

  Margaret Morganroth GulletteNov 30, 2019

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  On Millennial Fluidity; or, a Second Open Love Letter to Nico Tortorella

  Jonathan Alexander on Nico Tortorella, gender fluidity, and contemporary culture.

  Jonathan AlexanderNov 26, 2019

  • Film

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Poetry

  • Television

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  Pointing to the Trap

  LARB gender and sexuality editor Eric Newman considers “Females” by Andrea Long Chu.

  Eric NewmanNov 25, 2019

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  The Limits of the Bit

  Kay Gabriel confronts “Females” by Andrea Long Chu.

  Kay GabrielNov 25, 2019

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  The Astonishing and Multiple Achievements of Alice Guy-Blaché

  Sarah Gleeson-White reviews a new documentary about a female cinematic pioneer.

  Sarah Gleeson-WhiteNov 23, 2019

  • Film

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Partly Truth, Partly Fiction: 2019 Cinema Revisits the Manson Family

  Chloe Lizotte considers the Manson depictions from the summer of 2019, asking what contradictions of representation and historical memory they share.

  Chloe LizotteNov 10, 2019

  • Film

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Television

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  We Are Monsters: On “Inside Killjoy’s Kastle: Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and Other Lesbian Hauntings”

  On “Inside Killjoy’s Kastle,” a look at a lesbian haunted house art project as well as the anti-trans clouds that haunt stereotypes about lesbian identity.

  Alexis ClementsNov 9, 2019

  • Art & Architecture

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Evening Wood

  Paul Morton reviews "Cons De Fée: The Erotic Art of Wallace Wood," out now from Fantagraphics.

  Paul MortonNov 9, 2019

  • Comics

  • Gender & Sexuality

• Capitalism Is a Mental Illness: “Hustlers,” “The Known World,” and a Failed TV Project

  Annie McGreevy on “Hustlers,” Edward P. Jones’s “The Known World,” a failed TV project, and the hustles that sustain us under capitalism.

  Annie McGreevyNov 6, 2019

  • Fiction

  • Film

  • Gender & Sexuality