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Two prominent litigators discuss decades of progress, the backlash today, and the road ahead.
The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.
A long line of films tracks the solidarities that arise when prohibition makes friendship too perilous.
Chantal Johnson’s debut novel, Post-Traumatic, makes the case that we can—by moving away from representations of individual suffering.
Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.
Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.
Trans-inclusive policies are essential, but efforts to establish them must not lose sight of the structural oppressions that trans people face.Â
Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.
What would it look like if we put our desires at the center of our politics?
Harm reduction strategies have the best chance of stopping this disease.
The gender politics of Positive Psychology valorize the nuclear family and heterosexual monogamy.
Freedom means a world where how I parent is simply mundane rather than overburdened with meaning.Â
The late author of Nickel and Dimed played a major role in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.
Cruising extends the political value of the city as a space that brings us into contact with people who seem unlike us until we realize our shared desires.
Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.
Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.
Sex workers are labor's vanguard. The left ignores them at its peril.
The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people.
A new book offers a compelling, if imperfect, account of the bad feelings with which trans people often struggle.
Tinder and OkCupid should drop the gender binary. Doing so would help all users—queer and straight alike.
It is time to stop talking about Roe as the touchstone for abortion rights and to start imagining what law and policy can do to facilitate affordable and available services.
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Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Yale University and author of Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent
Writer on politics at the intersection of sex and justice
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