Annamarie Jagose, Orgasmology, Duke UP, 2013. Does orgasm have a history? Queer theorist Annamarie Jagose’s new book attempts to answer this question with a carefully researched journey through the...
As soon as I hit ‘play,’ bodies started writhing and undulating all over the screen. I scrolled down carefully to determine whether I’d accidentally loaded soft porn, but I hadn’t, and thus I...
On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan climbed onto a bus in Ankara, Turkey in front of a crowd of raging protesters and warned that his patience with the protests—that are now in...
On Friday, Israel’s annual gay pride celebration took over the streets of Tel Aviv, spilling from the sidewalks to the streets to the beaches. Israelis and foreigners alike, who now come from...
Emily Lindin is a blogger who has been posting her 6th grade diary entries online every day. A couple of months into the entries, her 11-year-old self lies on her parents’ bed and tries to think of...
When it comes to Bryan Fuller, I have come to expect a certain kind of television. Hypersaturated colours, dream-like settings, quirky and enduring characters, a hint of darkness; his television is...
Among the world's Jews, a gender war looms at Judaism’s holiest site. The Women of the Wall are a group of Jewish women who have been holding monthly services at the Kotel, the Western Wall, in...
The long-delayed fourth season of Fox cult hit Arrested Development debuted on Netflix this weekend, to cries of delights from fans—10% of whom proceeded to marathon the show, consuming all 15...
Sometimes, it takes a community to build a book. Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth’s What Makes A Baby started as the little Kickstarter project that could, and bloomed into something much larger as...
“Free, Free Palestine!” I used to lead the chants at protests as a teenager, but I was never entirely sure of what they meant. Of course, I knew my history. I knew that in 1948 the state of...
