Gender Studies

The bullet in my right bicep always aches. It reminds me how everything about me is fair game: who I love, how I…

I first started learning about sexual and domestic violence against women when I began my career as a journalist in…

At 82 years old, Billy Dee Williams is not only making moves as an iconic actor but as an iconic person.

Artists might be sensitive about their art, but parents are even more protective of their children, and because we…

You may not know India Mackey (in fact, chances are you don’t), but you know exactly what the young Michigan woman…

The mayor of Carbon Hill, Ala., is in deep shit after reportedly spewing homophobic rhetoric in a since-deleted…

With Pride season soon upon us, we’ll soon be inundated with rainbow apparel and items from brands falling over…

Four Northern Virginia school districts are showing support for Gavin Grimm, the young transgender man who’s been in…

Nigel Shelby was a 15-year-old high school freshman in Alabama who, according to reports on Facebook, committed…

A group of high school boys in the town of North Pole, Ala., (yes, you read that correctly), apparently took offense…

If you Google dancer Harper Watters, you’ll come up with a variety of results: His work as a soloist with the…

“It’s never true that *no one* is talking about a thing. It’s often true that *not enough* people are talking about…

Editor’s note: Intersex Awareness Day is October 26.

Like many young fathers, Donte Palmer is eager to take on a greater share of childrearing responsibilities that have…

Editor’s Note: This post includes a graphic description of gang rape.

At some point, we as women are going to have to stop being active participants in something that drags us down,…

There are a lot of reasons why a woman may not report when she has been sexually assaulted. It does not go without…

We all have our ways to detox and unwind. For some people, it’s taking a well-deserved nap, for others it’s maybe a…