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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

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

Gender & Sexuality

Songs of White Innocence

Why did the alt-right, so eager to excuse Milo Yiannopoulos, finally turn on him?

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

#Milosexual and the Aesthetics of Fascism

Milo Yiannopoulos was the paradoxical posterboy for the alt-right's fascist aesthetic. Until he wasn't.

Daniel Penny

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Feeling Paranoid

Phyllis Schlafly, Trump, and the terror of difference.

Vivian Gornick

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Hillary Clinton and the Unqualified Right to Abortion

Hillary Clinton is the first major politician to support abortion without qualification. And she has never polled better with millennials.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality

Queer in Rural America

Many see gayness as inseparable from city life. But many LGBT Americans—particularly queer black folks—live in rural places. Their invisibility to the gay rights movement is a problem.

Hugh Ryan

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