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Feminism

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

Literature & Culture

Two Paths for the Personal Essay

The personal essay is not dead, but has it traded politics for style?

Merve Emre

Literature & Culture

Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again

Junot Díaz interviews Margaret Atwood about The Handmaid's Tale, political dystopias, and Drake.

Margaret Atwood, Junot Díaz

Gender & Sexuality

Is Stealthing a Sex Crime?

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

Judith Levine

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

Literature & Culture

The Goddess of Loss

Indian literature in English after Arundhati Roy

Ulka Anjaria

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

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