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February 9, 2018
    In the United States every year, children born with ambiguous sex features are routinely subjected to invasive, medically unnecessary surgical procedures to align their...
December 21, 2017
In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, Patrice Banks used to get uncomfortable taking her car to the mechanic. But following a successful career as an engineer, she...
December 13, 2017
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2017 is feminism. The word was a top lookup throughout the year, showing a 70% increase over 2016. It also saw several spikes in...
December 4, 2017
Why Many Sexually Harassed Women Remain Silent - An experiment found a big difference between theoretical reactions and real ones: fear By Marianne LaFrance Dec. 1, 2017 2:24...
December 1, 2017
Indigenous children in Canada face a barrage of disadvantages: They suffer from high rates of poverty, suicide, sexual assault, incarceration, disease, addiction and...
November 29, 2017
Dinshaw will deliver the Brudner lecture at Yale on Wednesday, February 7th at 4:30pm (location TBA). Her lecture is titled “Doing Medieval Sex Work in the 21st Century: A ...