Gender and Sexuality

Former US president Donald Trump during a campaign event at Alro Steel in Potterville, Michigan, on August 29, 2024.

Donald Trump’s Second Administration Will Be As Women-Hating as Ever Donald Trump’s Second Administration Will Be As Women-Hating as Ever

"Your body, my choice" is only the beginning.

Dec 4, 2024 / Rebecca Gordon

The Nonstop Gay Sex Party on the Mexico City Subway

The Nonstop Gay Sex Party on the Mexico City Subway The Nonstop Gay Sex Party on the Mexico City Subway

The city’s metro hosts—and authorities unofficially sanction—a queer institution unlike any other.

Dec 2, 2024 / Feature / A.W. Strouse

A split screen image of Glenna Halverson-Boyd and Dr. Curtis Boyd and the cover of their new book,

“We Never Assumed Anything”: A Lifetime of Providing Abortion Care “We Never Assumed Anything”: A Lifetime of Providing Abortion Care

In their new book We Choose To, Dr. Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd reflect on their decades helping women who needed abortions—before, during, and after Roe.

Nov 29, 2024 / Regina Mahone

Low Skill Club

Low Skill Club Low Skill Club

Takeover dreams.

Nov 26, 2024 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

The Mirabal Sisters

The Mirabal Sisters The Mirabal Sisters

Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal were sisters from the Dominican Republic who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo; they were assassinated on November 25, 1960, und...

Nov 25, 2024 / OppArt / Sylvia Hernández

RFK Jr. at a podium pointing his finger.

How Nominally Pro-Choice RFK Jr. Can Get Anti-Abortion Groups to Back His HHS Nomination How Nominally Pro-Choice RFK Jr. Can Get Anti-Abortion Groups to Back His HHS Nomination

He can pick a strident abortion opponent like Roger Severino, who wrote the Project 2025 chapter on HHS, as his number two.

Nov 21, 2024 / Joan Walsh

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks onstage during a Pride celebration on June 28, 2023, in Washington, DC.

Trans People Shouldn’t Be Scapegoated for Democrats’ Failures Trans People Shouldn’t Be Scapegoated for Democrats’ Failures

Politicians and pundits are stoking a backlash to trans rights in the wake of the election. They’re playing a dangerous game.

Nov 20, 2024 / Sydney Bauer

Maya Schenwar (left) and Kim Wilson.

How Love Fuels Resistance: Parenting for Liberation How Love Fuels Resistance: Parenting for Liberation

Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson discuss their new anthology, We Grow the World Together, about how caregiving and the organizing work of abolitionists can go hand in hand.

Nov 19, 2024 / Q&A / Regina Mahone

Tell Me What You’re Feeling…

Tell Me What You’re Feeling… Tell Me What You’re Feeling…

Cartoonist Mahasen Al-Khatib killed in Gaza strip bombing.

Nov 19, 2024 / Gianluca Costantini and Mahasen Al-Khatib

Close-up of Gov. Pritzker with his left hand up in a fist.

When Does Power Concede? Thwarting MAGA Will Take More Than Protest and Symbolic Resistance. When Does Power Concede? Thwarting MAGA Will Take More Than Protest and Symbolic Resistance.

If we want to deploy actual power to block Trump’s vicious agenda once he takes control of the federal government, we will have to look to the states.

Nov 19, 2024 / Van Gosse

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