Gender & Sexuality

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

• The Devil in the Shape of a Preschool Teacher

  Richard Beck argues that day care ritual abuse trials of the 1980s were a vengeful response to a changing social order poised to grant women new freedoms.

  Jacqui ShineDec 13, 2015

  • Education

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  “Room” Is the “Crash” of Feminism

  Just as "Crash" was a racist exercise in trying to exorcise racism, "Room" is a misogynistic exploration of the suffering misogyny causes women.

  Sarah BlackwoodNov 4, 2015

  • Cultural Studies

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  South African Feminism, Lady Gaga, and the Flight Toward “Queer Utopia”

  As a fundamental human desire, the power to imagine new worlds that explode existing ones through gender performance and symbolism is universal.

  Desiree LewisSep 28, 2015

  • Around the World

  • Gender & Sexuality

• “Girl Sex 101” Is a Total Joy

  Any sex manual worth its salt is an instrument of liberation.

  Charlie Jane AndersSep 25, 2015

  • Gender & Sexuality

• “Writing and Holding”

  On Maggie Nelson's "The Argonauts."

  Jonathan FarmerSep 12, 2015

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Poetry

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  The More Noise, the More They Listen

  Larry Kramer may be getting older, but his passion, anger, and humor about AIDS is only getting stronger, in his activism, his writings, and his life.

  John-Manuel AndrioteSep 8, 2015

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Science & Technology

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  Feminist Utopia Project

  Margaret Shultz interviews "Utopia Project" editors Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff.

  Margaret ShultzAug 30, 2015

  • Cultural Studies

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  The Young and the Restless, and Laura Kipnis

  Kipnis, a humorous feminist and feminist humorist, employs irony, sarcasm, satire, and a general sense of levity in her discussions of gender, feminism, and sexuality.

  Stan PerskyJul 25, 2015

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Between Victimhood and Power: The Female Detectives of Television’s Crime Dramas

  Annie Manion discusses the gender contradictions of female detectives in television crime dramas.

  Annie ManionJun 22, 2015

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Noir

  • Television

• History, the Closet, and the LAPD

  Nina Revoyr interviews Katherine V. Forrest about her career and its influences.

  Nina RevoyrJun 16, 2015

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Noir

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  Forty Years’ War

  Jim HinchMay 24, 2015

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Politics

  • Religion

• 50 Shades of Libertarian Love

  Walter Benn Michael's excerpt from from a longer piece forthcoming in "Neoliberalism and Literature."

  May 22, 2015

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Politics