Drag Race to the Bottom
The so-called drag golden age is really a gilded age, where the runaway success of a few is made possible at the expense of the many.
Spring 2025
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Sex and the State
Paisley Currah’s Sex Is as Sex Does raises questions about efforts to achieve equal recognition under laws that sanction repression and inequality.
After Homosexuality
Sexual Hegemony, an ambitious retelling of the history of capitalism through the politics of gay sex, arrives just in time to help dissuade us of the idea that we have reached the end of gay history.
The Murder of a Witch
In Fernanda Melchor’s novel Hurricane Season, women are agents in their own lives, but we also see where the fear of such agency can lead.
The Rigorous Experimentalism of Ann Snitow, 1943–2019 
Ann demanded of us, and demands of us still, that we be as creative, relentless, and serious as she was in the pursuit of collective liberation.
Tough Guys
In The End of Eddy, Édouard Louis uses literature to enliven working-class society in a way that neither sociology nor history can.
Breaking the Cage
Galvanized by the brutal rape of a young student in 2012, a rising generation of Indian feminists are today arguing that the answer to the country’s public safety dilemma is not to lock women up at home, but to protect their right to take risks.
The People’s Flag is Palest Pink
The popular 2014 film Pride neatly dramatizes how queer–labor solidarity during the miners’ strike pushed back against Margaret Thatcher’s combination of social conservatism and market nihilism.
