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Hooligan Abby/Flickr Why a Shirt With Scantily Clad Women Caused an Internet Fight
Digital norms are making the culture wars worse.
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Lionsgate The Topics Dystopian Films Won't Touch
Movies like The Hunger Games imagine society's present problems getting worse—except for sexism and racism, which magically disappear in the future.
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Matt Rourke/AP The Cosby Show
Declining to seriously reckon with the rape allegations against him is reckless. And I was once reckless.
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Leslie Feinberg The Importance of Leslie Feinberg
Stone Butch Blues was a gateway for me to understanding love, gender expression, and my girlfriend. It should be up there with the classic coming-of-age novels.
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Morphart Creation / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why No One Can Design a Better Speculum
The gynecological device may have an ethically fraught history, but it's hard to improve on the design.
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essygie/Flickr What Doctors Don't Know About LGBT Health
A look at new guidelines meant to improve how medical schools teach students about sexual orientation and gender identity
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Gage Skidmore/Flickr Is Elle Fanning Taking a Role From a Transgender Actor?
It's a question that requires a lot of context to answer.
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Disney The Feminist Legacy of The Little Mermaid's Divisive, 'Sexy' Ariel
The stark difference in attitudes toward the Disney film in 1989 versus today serves as a reminder of how the concept of the Strong Female Lead is always changing.
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Left, Carolyn Kaster/AP; Top Right, Michael Conroy/AP; Bottom … Should Political Sex Scandals Be News?
A new book about Gary Hart and an uncensored letter from the FBI to Martin Luther King Jr. reopen the debate on the line between the private and the political.
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Paper Magazine Everything Butt the Girl
Is Kim Kardashian defying sexist beauty standards, or helping create new ones?
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Lauren Giordano / The Atlantic What the Law Can (and Can't) Do About Online Harassment
Over a third of women report being stalked or threatened on the internet. Here's what the justice system actually says about their options.
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liakapelke/Flickr Mesmerizing Videos of Ballerinas Preparing Their Pointe Shoes
Hours of crunching, sewing, and ripping go into readying a piece of footwear that lasts for just one performance.
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murengstockphoto / Shutterstock The Warrior Wives of Evangelical Christianity
The intense focus on sexuality, purity, manhood, and womanhood in certain faith communities—and its consequences
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Courtesy of Meredith Hattam Life as a Fake Beauty Queen in Small-Town China
I came to Beijing to model. Then I found myself playing Miss America in Inner Mongolia.
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Gary Cameron/Reuters A Call for Leadership From the Supreme Court on Gay Marriage
In upholding same-sex-marriage bans, Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton said the people should decide, but his ruling virtually guaranteed the opposite.
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Jason Reed/Reuters Why the Supreme Court May Have to Rule on Gay Marriage
With a decision to uphold same-sex-marriage bans, the Sixth Circuit creates a division that only the justices can resolve.
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Humphrey King/Flickr Pro-Lifers' Existential Crisis
Why personhood measures keep failing
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Harrison McClary/Reuters The Dream of Country-Music Gender Equality, Made Visible for One Night
Packed with outspoken women performing and winning, the CMAs looked female-friendly, even if the industry it celebrates still isn't.
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Magdalena Roeseler/Flickr Would an Anti-Catcalling Law Afflict the Powerful or the Weak?
A critique of the First Amendment from an academic who studies street harassment
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shira gal/Flickr What Tennessee's New Abortion Amendment Means for America
On Tuesday, voters changed the state's constitution, making it easier for lawmakers to restrict women's access to the procedure.
