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Going to Work in Mommy's Basement

From laundry to meal prep, apps tend to mimic maternal care. Is this good for women?

Sarah Sharma

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Gender & Sexuality

When Gays Wanted to Liberate Children

Seventies activists wanted to emancipate kids and destroy the nuclear family—so how did we end up with gay marriage instead?

Michael Bronski

Education & Opportunity, Gender & Sexuality

The Erotics of Mentorship

The best teaching is always intimate. Today's universities make it difficult to talk about that.

Marta Figlerowicz, Ayesha Ramachandran

Gender & Sexuality, Race

Guns in the Family

A childhood steeped in guns shows that toxic masculinity and racism are at the heart of U.S. gun culture.

Walter Johnson

Gender & Sexuality

Toward a Trans* Feminism

Feminism and trans* activism have been at odds for decades. They don't need to be.

Jack Halberstam

Gender & Sexuality

The Last Gay Liberationist

The death of Charley Shively marks the end of an era, but his revolutionary ideas for a just society resonate now more than ever.

Michael Bronski

Gender & Sexuality, Reading Lists

2017's Most-Loved Stories on Gender and Sexuality

From #MeToo to Milo Yiannopoulos, this has been the year of gender trouble.

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Gender & Sexuality

Will Feminism’s Past Mistakes Haunt #MeToo?

#MeToo must go beyond the demand for punishment.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality

#ThemToo

To fight sexual harassment in the workplace, we must return to the history of women in the labor movement.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality

Is Stealthing a Sex Crime?

Prosecuting stealthing may not be the best way to end the practice.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

He Said, He Said: The Feminization of James Comey

Conservatives routinely deny that gender is fluid. Yet they have feminized Comey in order to bring him down.

Bonnie Honig

Gender & Sexuality, Race

Beyond Racism and Misogyny

Black feminism and the 2 Live Crew.

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

Gender & Sexuality

Not All Mothers

The female body is not, as Ariel Levy claims, the ultimate equalizer.

Judith Levine

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