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Gender & Sexuality, Philosophy & Religion

Why We Shouldn't Compare Transracial to Transgender Identity

Unlike gender inequality, racial inequality primarily accumulates across generations. Transracial identification undermines collective reckoning with that injustice.

Robin Dembroff, Dee Payton

Global Justice

Mourning in Tehran

On Ashura, Shi’a Muslims grieve the Prophet’s grandson. But with Iran crippled by COVID-19 and U.S. sanctions, it was also an occasion this year to mourn the country’s deaths from disease and despair.

Nargol Aran

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Save the Equal Rights Amendment

This year Virginia became the crucial thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.

Julie C. Suk

Arts in Society

The Woman Erased from Bauhaus History

Lucia Moholy helped create the visual language of the Bauhaus, but when she fled the Nazis her work was stolen by Walter Gropius.

Elizabeth Hoover

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

When Quotas Come Up Short

Some gender equality initiatives help to reinforce exclusion rather than dismantle it.

Marie E. Berry, Milli Lake

Gender & Sexuality

Pathologizing Desire

Current contempt for age gap relationships serves to strip both men and women of their agency. 

Jessa Crispin

Law & Justice, Politics

What's Next for Abortion Law?

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling is only the latest twist in the convoluted legal history of women’s reproductive rights. The future looks no less partisan.

Mary Ziegler

Arts in Society

Fashioning a Way Out of Black Pain

A new memoir by long-time Vogue editor André Leon Talley paints a grim picture of a fashion industry in which people of color have few opportunities beyond serving the ambitions of white designers, editors, and executives.

Alexis L. Boylan

Gender & Sexuality

Whose Anger Counts?

Cancel culture can go wrong, but that doesn't mean the objections of far-right trolls and social justice activists should be mistaken for having equal worth.

Whitney Phillips

Gender & Sexuality

Sexual Violence and Sexual Spectacle

A new book decries moral panics over sexual danger. But in thinking about the MeToo movement, we should not conflate real abuse with mere scandal.

Stephanie Sy-Quia

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Violence Cannot Remedy Violence

Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment. To prevent both sexual and state-inflicted abuse, we must embrace restorative justice.

Judith Levine, Erica R. Meiners

Forum

What Does It Take to Get Women Elected?

If women’s suffrage was the battle of the twentieth century, women’s representation will be the battle of the twenty-first.

Jennifer M. Piscopo

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