Can She Dig It
"Unearthing lost gems" often reinforces the gendered principles that have excluded women from cultural canons
Gender Fuck
Queer porn fights against the suppression, ignorance and invisibilization of trans and queer desire under heteropatriarchy
MPREG versus Homonormcore
There is perhaps nothing more “normal” than teen girls fantasizing about boy-on-boy relationships and male pregnancy
Swimming Class
To clean the unwashed masses, American social reformers built public pools. You will believe what happened next.
Fist to Brain
The boxing ring is a ritual space dedicated to the vulnerable materiality of the human brain
Bad Vibes
Casting some bodies as inherently rational and others as incapable of true speech makes those with bodies most at risk for harm unable to protest
Taking Shit From Others
Recent FDA regulation of shit as a medical treatment brings to light the ambivalence of excrement
Death and the Maiden
Freud’s theory of the death drive also gives us a way to think about gender
Teaching While Black
If race is a construct, gender is a construct, and teaching is a performative act, where and how do I exist in the classroom as a real black woman?