Last year, Britain’s only NHS clinic dealing with gender identity conditions in under 18s reported a 100% increase in the number of children being referred to them for assessment and treatment....
It has been hard to escape the recent controversy surrounding the prohibition of modest Muslim swimwear in areas of coastal France. The ‘burkini ban’ has been implemented in towns including...
Jeff Feuerzeig’s Sundance-premiering documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story delves into the strange and winding tale of how a San Francisco musician and phone sex operator by the name of Laura...
Looking for some good reads to start off the week? Here's what's been intriguing us lately... 'Interview with Libya's Prime Minister: 'We Will Not Become Like Somalia'' (Spiegel) What's happening in...
In her 18th book, writer and Distinguished Professor of English at CUNY Staten Island Sarah Schulman takes on the weighty topic of interpersonal conflict, abusive behavior, the “overstatement of...
We’ve all seen the numbers, the horrendous “favorability” and “likability.” News commentators keep telling us that this year we have the choice between the two most loathed presidential...
The term “biopolitics” was first ushered into wide use in a variety of academic fields of inquiry by French theorist Michel Foucault during his lecture series “Society Must Be Defended,”...
Of all the rampant sexism being flung around during the 2016 Olympics, the most hateful may be what's happening to American gymnast Gabby Douglas, who is suffering a thousand cuts at the hands of...
Happy Monday, gentle readers! It's been quite a weekend of excitement in Rio and beyond, so let's take a look at some of the stories that are getting us excited (or horrified, or fascinated) this...
Another day, another case in which a US judge hands down an extremely lenient sentence to a white, privileged rapist with a 'bright future' ahead of him. Cue fury, with people rising up to demand a...
