Against ‘Bullying’ or On Loving Queer Kids Against ‘Bullying’ or On Loving Queer Kids
Faced with a rash of gay teen suicides, liberal America is taking the easy way out—focusing on teenage bullies and calling for zealous criminal prosecution.
Oct 6, 2010 / Richard Kim
Representative Women Representative Women
Christine Stansell's The Feminist Promise is a landmark book, yet is indifferent to the role of ideas in feminism's history.
Oct 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Martha C. Nussbaum
Andrew Shirvell Needs to be Fired If We Want to End Violence Against Gays Andrew Shirvell Needs to be Fired If We Want to End Violence Against Gays
In his unrelenting online attacks on the University of Michigan's first openly gay president, assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell feeds America's culture of violent homoph...
Oct 5, 2010 / StudentNation / Vivekananda Nemana
Feminist Mothers, Flapper Daughters? Feminist Mothers, Flapper Daughters?
Young feminists aren't disdaining the movement, they're claiming it—but they want a bigger place in it.
Sep 30, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Sex and the GOP Sex and the GOP
The Republican Party is hard-selling its hot Mama Grizzlies. But it's mostly men—not women—who are buying.
Sep 30, 2010 / Feature / Betsy Reed
Democrats: Remember the Ladies! Democrats: Remember the Ladies!
The party's reluctance to capitalize on its feminist successes makes it look scared—and weak.
Sep 30, 2010 / Feature / Rebecca Traister
Howls of Anger, and of Liberation Howls of Anger, and of Liberation
The new film Howl reveals how Allen Ginsberg's radical poem marked a coming out not only for his generation but also for himself.
Sep 29, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Sarah M. Seltzer
Who Stole Feminism? Who Stole Feminism?
By focusing on gender alone, institutional feminists opened the door for the Mama Grizzlies.
Sep 29, 2010 / Feature / Jessica Valenti
University of Pennsylvania Ranked Top Gay-Friendly College University of Pennsylvania Ranked Top Gay-Friendly College
More students coming out than ever before solidifies Penn’s gay-friendly reputation
Sep 27, 2010 / StudentNation / Anjali Tsui
Michelle Bachelet, New Head of UN Women: Where There Is Poverty, ‘the State Cannot Be Neutral’ Michelle Bachelet, New Head of UN Women: Where There Is Poverty, ‘the State Cannot Be Neutral’
The choice of former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet to head the new United Nations agency for women may be the most important and smartest appointment Ban Ki-moon makes in his...
Sep 27, 2010 / Barbara Crossette