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Arts Media

How Twitter Can Ruin a Life

The writer of a contentious piece of science fiction, “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” drew the internet’s ire. Now she tells her story.

Emily VanDerWerff Vox Jun 2021 25min Permalink

World Health

He Should Have Been A Boy

He was born Linda, but ten years ago Daniel came out as a transgender man. He changed his name to Daniel Valter Jensen, got a new social security number and grew a full beard.

Line Vaaben Dagbladet Information Jan 2021 20min Permalink

Body Language

How to tell a genderqueer story.

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich Harper's Nov 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

Slippery When Wet

Angelika Graswald, also known as the Kayak Killer, went to jail for letting her fiancé drown in the Hudson River. Now she’s out on parole and looking to clear her name.

Kat Stoeffel Elle Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

The Morality Wars

Should art be a battleground for social justice?

Wesley Morris New York Times Magazine Oct 2018 20min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

The Male Glance

How the way we’re taught to look at female-centric TV, books and movies is ruining our ability to see good art.

Lili Loofbourow Virginia Quarterly Review Mar 2018 25min Permalink

Movies & TV

Make Yourself Up

On RuPaul and Drag Race.

Jenna Wortham New York Times Magazine Jan 2018 25min Permalink

I Used to Insist I Didn’t Get Angry. Not Anymore.

On female rage.

Leslie Jamison New York Times Magazine Jan 2018 15min Permalink

When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy

As a young social psychologist, she played by the rules and won big: an influential study, a viral TED talk, a prestigious job at Harvard. Then, suddenly, the rules changed.

Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine Oct 2017 35min Permalink

Sex

The Talk

What happens when you target sex ed at boys?

Rachel Giese The Walrus Mar 2014 25min Permalink

My Brother’s Pregnancy and the Making of a New American Family

“My brother Evan was born female. He came out as transgender 16 years ago but never stopped wanting to have a baby. This spring he gave birth to his first child.”

Jessi Hempel Time Sep 2016 20min Permalink

Girl Talk

Transgender voice therapy, an airline pilot, and what it means to sound like a woman.

Vivian Wang The Awl Jul 2016 10min Permalink

Think Gender Is a Performance? You Have Judith Butler to Thank For That

In 1990, Judith Butler published a groundbreaking book on queer theory. Today, “in a broad-stroke, vastly simplified version, the understanding of gender that Gender Trouble suggests is not only recognizable; it is pop.”

Molly Fischer New York Jun 2016 15min Permalink

Sex

My Life as a Sex Object

The aftermath of a childhood filled with subway flashers, teachers who asked for hugs, and boys who joked about your breasts.

Read more

Excerpted from Sex Object.

Jessica Valenti The Guardian May 2016 15min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Plans"

Dolls and complicated gender dynamics.

Matt Runkle The Collagist Apr 2016 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Tragic Tale of the Baron and His Wife"

A story of blame.

Witold Gombrowicz The Paris Review Mar 2016 Permalink

Business

Panty Raid

“She is a tech bro — except she’s a woman, trying to sell underwear. Or, as she sees it, innovating in the ‘period space.’” A profile of Miki Agrawal, founder of Thinx.

Noreen Malone New York Jan 2016 20min Permalink

Media

On Gawker’s Problem With Women

A former staffer on how the company failed its female employees.

Dayna Evans Matter Nov 2015 20min Permalink

They Found Love, Then They Found Gender

A Texas love story.

Francesca Mari Matter Oct 2015 20min Permalink

Business

How Men's Rights Leader Paul Elam Turned Being A Deadbeat Dad Into A Moneymaking Movement

An investigation into the past of a prominent voice in the men’s rights movement.

Adam Serwer, Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Feb 2015 25min Permalink

Crime

The Fire on the 57 Bus in Oakland

A black 16-year-old lights a white, agender 18-year-old’s skirt on fire while riding the bus. Is it a hate crime? And what’s the appropriate punishment?

Dashka Slater New York Times Magazine Jan 2015 25min Permalink

Business Tech

The Gaming Industry's Greatest Adversary Is Just Getting Started

A profile of Anita Sarkeesian, who has recieved death threats as she exposes misogyny in the $25 billion video game industry.

Sheelah Kolhatkar Businessweek Nov 2014 15min Permalink

When No Gender Fits: A Quest to Be Seen as Just a Person

“Kelsey’s gender identity is ‘non-binary.’ Or, ‘agender.’ It’s what Kelsey feels comfortable with, even though the world keeps insisting, in a million little ways, that Kelsey has to choose.”

Monica Hesse Washington Post Sep 2014 20min Permalink

Sex World

The Afghan Girls Who Live as Boys

Posing for family survival in a society that values boys over girls.

Jenny Nordberg The Atlantic Sep 2014 15min Permalink

World

The Mountains Where Women Live as Men

On the burrneshas of Albania.

Michael Paterniti GQ Mar 2014 25min Permalink

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