Psychology
essay
Human rights and justice
My elusive pain
The lives of North Africans in France are shaped by a harrowing struggle to belong, marked by postcolonial trauma
Farah Abdessamad
essay
Stories and literature
The real Miss Julie
Victoria Benedictsson assumed a male identity, achieved literary stardom, and took her own life. Then Strindberg stole it
Elisabeth Åsbrink
essay
Gender and identity
Silencing of the girls
Girls are still in a bad bargain with patriarchy: the price of relationship is keeping their true thoughts to themselves
Carol Gilligan
essay
Genetics
Artists of our own lives
The genome is the starting point for a performance we enact over a lifetime, not a blueprint we’ve got to follow
Richard O Prum
essay
Illness and disease
More than pink
The culture around breast cancer is full of positivity and femininity. But it comes at the expense of the marginalised
Philippa Hetherington
video
Gender
When aggression is viewed as brilliance, it hurts women in science, and science itself
5 minutes
video
Gender
The ‘sworn virgins’ of Albania who trade femininity for freedom
10 minutes
essay
Gender and identity
A manly divorce
Straight men rarely write about the end of their marriages. Our enduring ideas about gender explain this silence
Joshua Coleman
video
Gender and identity
‘I didn’t fall in love with a couple of body pieces’ – on marriage and transition
3 minutes
essay
Gender and identity
Disarming transphobia
‘Rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ is a popular weapon in the anti-trans arsenal. It is nothing but unscientific bunk
Quinnehtukqut McLamore
video
The ancient world
Sappho’s homoerotic poetry was beloved in ancient Greece – and burned centuries later
5 minutes
video
Gender and identity
Timothée built his identity around his absent father. What happens when they meet?
17 minutes
video
Gender and identity
‘When you’re done, you stay human!’ What gender transition means to John
6 minutes
essay
Art
Her body is a problem
When 1970s women artists put the female body under the female gaze, why did the critics see only obscene monsters?
Lauren Elkin
video
Art
A mindbending trip that summons the forgotten women of surrealism
17 minutes
video
Gender and identity
What happened when a gay Black man joined the Metropolitan Police in London
25 minutes
video
Teaching and learning
The vulva dialogues – inside a sex-ed class that rebels against genitalia shame
11 minutes
video
Gender and identity
LGBTQ+ retirees celebrate their hard-earned self-acceptance at a belated prom night
14 minutes
essay
Gender and identity
George Sand’s boots
How the rebellious novelist left behind her provincial self to learn about life, charging around Paris dressed as a man
Belinda Jack
video
Sports and games
You’ve likely never heard of the only woman drafted into the NBA – and that’s fine by her
22 minutes
essay
Thinkers and theories
The view from her
Is there something special about the way women do philosophy or is that just another essentialist idea holding us back?
Elly Vintiadis
essay
Philosophy of mind
You are a network
You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity
Kathleen Wallace
essay
Stories and literature
Shameful
Women who write about their pain suffer a double shaming: once for getting injured, twice for their act of self-exposure
Katherine Angel
essay
Biography and memoir
Not only the stranger
Growing up in the shadow of a serial killer I came to understand that danger within a locked house might exceed that without
Alicia Foster