Gender and Sexuality

Anti-NRA Protests

A New Study Debunks the NRA’s Claim That Guns Protect Women A New Study Debunks the NRA’s Claim That Guns Protect Women

Women are 100 times more likely to be killed by a man with a gun than to use a firearm in self defense. 

Sep 22, 2017 / George Zornick

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Letters From the October 9, 2017, Issue Letters From the October 9, 2017, Issue

No more piecemeal rights… When small is actually big…

Sep 21, 2017 / Letters / Our Readers

Clinton in Barnes & Noble

We Need to Reckon With the Story ‘What Happened’ Tells We Need to Reckon With the Story ‘What Happened’ Tells

Hillary Clinton has a unique perspective on a world-historical event. Why shouldn’t she write a book about it?

Sep 21, 2017 / Column / Katha Pollitt

The Economic Costs of Domestic Violence

The Economic Costs of Domestic Violence The Economic Costs of Domestic Violence

The repercussions of intimate-partner violence extend far beyond the home.

Sep 20, 2017 / Michelle Chen

The Real Crisis of European Multiculturalism

The Real Crisis of European Multiculturalism The Real Crisis of European Multiculturalism

As a set of policies and as an ideal for a more pluralist society, it has failed not because of recent waves of immigration but because of how Europeans view their own culture and ...

Sep 20, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Joan W. Scott

Speaking of the ‘Female Gaze’

Speaking of the ‘Female Gaze’ Speaking of the ‘Female Gaze’

In today’s confused, commercial, and not-quite-intellectual environment, the phrase “female gaze” functions in varied ways, according to its users’ needs.

Sep 18, 2017 / Alina Cohen

Body autonomy

My Body, My Choice: Why the Principle of Bodily Autonomy Can Unite the Left My Body, My Choice: Why the Principle of Bodily Autonomy Can Unite the Left

From disability rights to Black Lives Matter to the environmental movement, bodily autonomy can bring together disparate strands of the American left.

Sep 13, 2017 / David M. Perry

Betsy DeVos speaks about Title IX

What Betsy DeVos Gets Wrong About Sexual Assault on Campus What Betsy DeVos Gets Wrong About Sexual Assault on Campus

Her focus on due process shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the dynamics at play in campus rape investigations.

Sep 12, 2017 / StudentNation / Elizabeth Adetiba

Intersex HRW

Why Intersex Patients Need the Truth and Doctors Need to Listen Why Intersex Patients Need the Truth and Doctors Need to Listen

As an intersex woman and a doctor, I’ve seen the dangerous stigma the US medical establishment attaches to our community.

Sep 12, 2017 / Katharine B. Dalke

Betita in 1969

Legendary Chicana Organizer Betita Martínez Wrote a Perfect Parody for the Trump Era—in 1967 Legendary Chicana Organizer Betita Martínez Wrote a Perfect Parody for the Trump Era—in 1967

Martínez penned it after leaving her job at The Nation to work for SNCC.

Sep 11, 2017 / Tony Platt and Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez

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