Sam Huber The Boundaries of Kinship In her plays, Alice Childress revealed how vulnerable even the most private, self-enclosed spaces are to history’s incursions. May 17, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant Policing Womanhood For groups like Alliance Defending Freedom, the erosion of abortion rights and trans rights are complementary pathways to building a Christian nation. May 15, 2022
Julian Lucas The Yeehaw Papyrus In his 1969 satire Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, Ishmael Reed married the Western to the Afrocentric vogue for Ancient Egypt. May 15, 2022
Elizabeth A. Reese Unsteady Ground Native people have known for a long time that in this country, rights—whether to remain, to pray, to vote, or even to live—are impermanent and fickle things, subject to revision by those in power. May 14, 2022
E. Tammy Kim Big Stories, Little Stories “One thing I almost always do, across genres and subjects, is go places and call people.” May 14, 2022
Catherine Coleman Flowers Our Lives in Their Hands If state governments truly cared about the lives of poor women or our children, they wouldn’t poison our water and pollute our air. They can’t be trusted with our bodies. May 13, 2022
Sherrilyn Ifill Stealing the Crown Jewels Justice Alito purports to place the future of abortion in the hands of women voters—despite abetting the disenfranchisement of Black and Latina women. May 12, 2022
Sue Halpern Before the Fall As evangelicals came into the GOP tent, Republican voters and politicians traded women’s bodies for political power. May 11, 2022
Meaghan Winter Weak Protagonists While purporting to be the party of reproductive rights, Democrats have consistently failed to take a strong stance on abortion. Can they still stand up to minority rule? May 10, 2022
Annette Gordon-Reed Uprooting Rights The draft opinion looks back longingly to a nineteenth-century understanding of who was in control and whose lives mattered. May 9, 2022
