gender – The New Inquiry

Can She Dig It

"Unearthing lost gems" often reinforces the gendered principles that have excluded women from cultural canons

Queer porn fights against the suppression, ignorance and invisibilization of trans and queer desire under heteropatriarchy

There is perhaps nothing more “normal” than teen girls fantasizing about boy-on-boy relationships and male pregnancy

To clean the unwashed masses, American social reformers built public pools. You will believe what happened next.

The boxing ring is a ritual space dedicated to the vulnerable materiality of the human brain

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

Recent FDA regulation of shit as a medical treatment brings to light the ambivalence of excrement

Freud’s theory of the death drive also gives us a way to think about gender

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?