Mark Gevisser ‘Moffie’ and Me South African filmmakers are confronting an aspect of the apartheid era that marked my generation: an abusive masculinity defined by its homophobia. May 3, 2021
Lavender Au China’s Big #MeToo Test When the people’s republic claims to have achieved gender equality, how to deal with a high-profile accusation of sexual harassment is a tricky matter. January 12, 2021
Shannon Pufahl The Look of Lesbian Love Recent films like Ammonite and Portrait of a Lady on Fire make a spectacle of same-sex desire, but who is meant to enjoy the view? December 28, 2020
Tiana Reid ‘Atlantics’ & Migration’s Left-Behind Women With the focus of a film about the capitalist undercurrent of migration finally and powerfully on Ada, in Africa, Mati Diop’s imaginative feature exemplifies a labor politics fiercely concerned with gender and sexuality. December 14, 2019
Maya Millett The Heroines of America’s Black Press How many black women journalists from the nineteenth century can you name? November 23, 2019
Caitlin O’Keefe Feminism & Shakespeare and Company To characterize Sylvia Beach as merely a “midwife” and to remember her primarily for bringing into being the work of Great Men is to misrepresent her and the everyday work at her Shakespeare and Company bookshop. November 18, 2019
Joseph Osmundson An Interview with Tommy Pico Tommy Pico, a queer, Indigenous American poet, has published four book-length epic poems, the Teebs tetralogy, in the last four years. November 16, 2019
Eleanor Davis Sketching an Uncertain Future Eleanor Davis is one of the very best cartoonists working today. November 2, 2019
Andrea Long Chu An Interview with Jacqueline Novak Jacqueline Novak’s knees must be getting tired. She’s been on them since July, when her off-Broadway one-woman show about blowjobs opened in the West Village. Get on Your Knees became something of a downtown darling this summer—and has recently been extended again, this time through October 6. September 19, 2019
Melissa Chadburn A Duet on Girlhood In the end I ran, and like with the bird and the sky above Beretta, and the mutt Morris who was let out into the strange lonely streets, and a loaded gun between kids, there was a sinking, sickening excitement when I made my mother cry. September 3, 2019