Gender and Sexuality

Why We Need Kin: A Conversation With Sophie Lucido Johnson

Why We Need Kin: A Conversation With Sophie Lucido Johnson Why We Need Kin: A Conversation With Sophie Lucido Johnson

The author and cartoonist explains why we should dismantle the nuclear family and build something bigger.

Dec 23, 2025 / Q&A / Regina Mahone

Amazon delivery driver Leah Cross has alleged that Amazon’s delivery quota amounts to workplace discrimination. Here, a Lakewood, Colorado, driver makes deliveries in 2023.

The EEOC Is Now Letting Workplace Discrimination Stand The EEOC Is Now Letting Workplace Discrimination Stand

The agency is unlawfully giving up on fighting disparate impact discrimination—meaning it’s “open season” on employees.

Dec 16, 2025 / Bryce Covert

Keeping the Police Out of Pregnancy Care

Keeping the Police Out of Pregnancy Care Keeping the Police Out of Pregnancy Care

We must be vigilant in keeping law enforcement out of exam rooms.

Dec 12, 2025 / Lourdes A. Rivera and Dr. Jamila Perritt

My Search for Barbie’s Aryan Predecessor

My Search for Barbie’s Aryan Predecessor My Search for Barbie’s Aryan Predecessor

The original doll was not made by Mattel but by a business that perfected its practice making plaster casts of Hitler.

Dec 6, 2025 / Tarpley Hitt

People participate in the Queer Liberation March in New York City on June 29, 2025.

Why Palestine Matters So Much to Queer People Why Palestine Matters So Much to Queer People

Palestinian identity can “upend the whole world order, if done right, if spun right, if we activate it enough. And I think queerness is a very similar kind of identity.”

Dec 5, 2025 / Jad Salfiti

Woman, Life, Freedom

Woman, Life, Freedom Woman, Life, Freedom

Posters in support of the people of Iran displayed at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France.

Dec 3, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and musician Michael Bolton pose for a portrait during a party at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000.

Why Did So Many People in Epstein’s Circle Look the Other Way? Why Did So Many People in Epstein’s Circle Look the Other Way?

First of all, in order to ask questions about the young women he preyed on, they’d need to see them as people.

Nov 25, 2025 / Katha Pollitt

Stand Up!

Stand Up! Stand Up!

Believe in science.

Nov 25, 2025 / OppArt / India Tresselt

Irin Carmon on How the United States Has Made Pregnancy Unbearable

Irin Carmon on How the United States Has Made Pregnancy Unbearable Irin Carmon on How the United States Has Made Pregnancy Unbearable

An interview with the author of a new book documenting the brutalities of childbirth in the post-Dobbs era.

Nov 25, 2025 / Regina Mahone

Why We Must Remember Brandon Teena

Why We Must Remember Brandon Teena Why We Must Remember Brandon Teena

Decades after his death, Brandon’s name was invoked in the Nebraska legislature as a reminder of what led to his murder. This Transgender Day of Remembrance, we must not forget.

Nov 20, 2025 / Kelsy Burke

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