Gender & Sexuality

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

• America Hates Women

  Bad Feminist brings an inclusive and modulated voice to what has been, at times, a shrill conversation.

  Erika SchickelAug 3, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

• “The Hardest Work I Have Ever Done”: “Dropout Piece” by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

  Catherine WagleyJul 23, 2014

  • Art & Architecture

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  It Gets Better: The Evolution of "Queer TV"

  Rachel EdelmanJul 21, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Television

• Fake Places: The Work of Edie Fake

  Joshua Michael Demaree on the career of Edie Fake.

  Joshua Michael DemareeJul 17, 2014

  • Comics

  • Gender & Sexuality

• Feminism and the “50 Shades” Hangover

  Neither of these books is about "50 Shades of Grey," not really. They are about the state of women. How, they ask, is feminism working for you?

  Jessa CrispinJul 15, 2014

  • Cultural Studies

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  The Feels of Friendship

  Korean dramas have refreshing views of same-sex friendship, but do their gains depend on a gay retreat to the closet?

  Eric NewmanJun 10, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Television

• The Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy

  There’s something more at work in The Animals than two lovers calling each other pet names.

  Matthew GallawayMay 29, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Irritated Critics

  This is and is not the book Ellen Willis fans asked for.

  Lisa LevyMay 12, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Music

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  From Long March to Leftovers

  The ramifications of China’s one-child policy on its female population are provocatively laid out in Leta Hong Fincher’s new book.

  Apr 30, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  A One Woman Army

  Andi Zeisler reviews "Valerie Solanos: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol).

  Apr 12, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  America’s Silver Age

  For the first time, Wonder Woman’s origin story is in full color.

  Tim HanleyApr 12, 2014

  • Comics

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Perfect Strangers: Tinder and 21st Century Fiction

  The sudden about-face in Millennial romance and sex

  August BrownDec 24, 2013

  • Cultural Studies

  • Gender & Sexuality