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All Reproduction Is Assisted

Feminism needs better reproductive strategies.

Merve Emre

Race

White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream

“Very fine people”—fathers, husbands, and sons, as well as mothers, wives, and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.

Stephen Kantrowitz

Gender & Sexuality

All Reproduction Is Assisted

Feminism needs better reproductive strategies. 

Merve Emre

Politics

The Trump Doctrine and the Gender Politics of Power

Both at home and abroad, Trump deploys a politics of misogyny—lifted right from Machiavelli.

Bonnie Honig

Literature & Culture

The Education of an Ambivalent Feminist

Tara Westover's best-selling memoir may reveal more about the place of feminism in contemporary U.S. life than any book in recent memory.

Micki McElya

Philosophy & Religion

The Conversion of Pope Francis

The pontiff still hasn't commented on Ireland's abortion referendum. That could all change when he visits the country in August. 

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Gender & Sexuality

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

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

Toward a Trans* Feminism

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

Jack Halberstam

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

Education & Opportunity

In the Name of Victims

Beyond the symbolic crisis to the realities of Title IX implementation.

Kristin Bumiller

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