“The Erasure of Maya Angelou’s Sex Work History”

“In interviews, Dr. Angelou used the term “prostitute” to refer to her previous employment without rancor or shame. She spoke candidly to her family about it. She told her mother, brother, and son she would redact the information from the book…

“The Fast Show — The Amazing Invisible Woman!”

“Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain”

“The moment we start talking about wounded women, we risk transforming their suffering from an aspect of the female experience into an element of the female constitution — ​perhaps its finest, frailest consummation. The ancient Greek Menander once said: “Woman is…

“I’m a lesbian marrying a man”

“Call it a kind of intermarriage. I am 5-foot-9, brunette, lesbian, that won’t alter because of our vows; nor will my love of women, though I won’t be dating them. If either of us had to pretend otherwise, I wouldn’t be marrying this man. It is precisely because our love…

“Why has drag escaped critique from feminists and the LGBTQ community?”

“Why is it funny for men to dress up as women and not for women to dress up as men? There’s something about this performance that says that femininity and, in turn, women, are a joke (just like white people…

“35 PRACTICAL STEPS MEN CAN TAKE TO SUPPORT FEMINISM”

“Part of living in a patriarchal society is that men are not socialized to think about how their habits and attitudes harm women. This list is meant to push men to think more consciously and personally about the direct and indirect effects they have on women, and to think…

“A How to Guide for Male Feminists (with the caveat that I don’t know what I’m talking about)”

“I’m learning all the time from different feminists about what they believe a man’s role in feminism should be. I listen. I take notes. I act accordingly. There’s no…

“Why PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi Can’t Have It All”

“I’m serious, if you don’t develop mechanisms with your secretaries, with the extended office, with everybody around you, it cannot work. You know, stay at home mothering was a full time job. Being a CEO for a company is three full time jobs rolled into one. How can you do…

“Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students”

“In a randomized double-blind study (n = 127), science…

“How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You: The BeyHive”

“Is Beyoncé a feminist? Is she a womanist? I don’t know. To me she is a cyborg. “Cyborg writing,” Donna Haraway tells us, “is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as…