"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith
Carlos Ulises Decena finds a welcome, nuanced portrait of queer history in Julio Capó Jr.’s “Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940.”
Change the political genre, fight for something new, Acker’s work urges us, because conventional politics in the post-factual age is failing to evolve.
Jacquelyn Ardam reviews Michelle Dean’s “Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art Out of Having an Opinion.”
Daniel Zamora and Mitchell Dean draw parallels between Michel Foucault’s “History of Sexuality” and the rise of neoliberalism.
Kelly Coyne revisits "Grey Gardens."
Lauren Young talks to Winnie M. Li about her debut novel, “Dark Chapter,” and the aesthetic and political struggles of translating the nuances of recovery.
Graeme Reid, director of the LGBT Rights Program at the Human Rights Watch, on a grim year in LGBT civil rights and what it means for the path forward.
A book that demystifies the fairy tales France tells about itself.
Sarah Banet-Weiser's second installment of her bi-monthly column that explores some of the different cultural facets of popular feminism.
Angela Shpolberg on Maria Bochkareva and the Women’s Battalion of Death, as seen through the eyes of American women journalists.
Finding solace and strength in Karen Karbo's "In Praise of Difficult Women."
Emily Wells on the language of pain in literature.
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