The Latest Anthology on RuPaul’s Drag Race Is Gag-Worthy
The Cultural Impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race turns a fierce lewk without overriding any of the iconic moments served by its predecessors.
gender studies
Television and Women’s History through the Lens of Soap Operas
Media critic Elana Levine's Her Stories explores television history and the conflicts of generation, gender, and race in the heyday of "women's" soap operas.
Do We Already Know the Answer to the Question, ‘Are Men Animals?’
Matthew Gutmann's Are Men Animals is and interesting but flawed, rushed look at masculinity that suffers from digressions and an unwillingness to be as political as it could have been.
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Conveyed with urgency and mindfulness, Johnson's Black. Queer. Southern. Women. creates a space for revisioning critical race and sexual ideologies while affirming the voices of queer black women.
‘God Save the Queens’ Addresses the Gender Imbalance in the Story of Rap
Kathy Iandoli's personable history, God Save the Queens, shows how women in rap face up to the battles.
Sady Doyle Is a Witch. So What Are You Afraid Of?
You’ll want to share Sady Doyle’s Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers with the rest of your coven and all the little girls in your orbit.
Delicious Lips, Delicious Text: Kathryn Bond Stockton’s ‘Making Out’
Kathryn Bond Stockton's Making Out will linger.
‘Art Rebels’ Squeezes Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese into the Same Box
Paul Lopes's Art Rebels is a study that tries (and only partly succeeds) to fit two great artists -- Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese -- into clearly defined categories.
What — and Who — Is Trans*?
Jack Halberstam provides a deep examination into how and why we name who and what we are.
When One’s ‘True Sex’ Is Discovered in America
The rich portraits Skidmore creates of these trans men can help illuminate not only their lives but also the lives of many other trans people who remain undiscovered and anonymous.