A Play on the Trans Experience, Through Voices of Family
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Resident Playwright at New Dramatists, discusses the New York premiere of Draw the Circle. Deen tells the hilarious and moving story of his transition entirely from the point of...
View ArticleFeminist Lessons From the Third Wave
The tensions both inside and outside the #MeToo movement reflect a long history of debate over which direction feminism should take. Back in 1994, the women’s movement was similarly drilling down on...
View ArticleDeneuve sends a dated message of empowerment
The legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve is denouncing the #MeToo movement and defending sexual freedom. The World's Sarah Birnbaum says she's stuck in a feminism of the 1960s.
View ArticleSome French men are lamenting 'the end of love as we know it'
One French journalist sees his countrymen clinging to a "retro," sexist notion of seduction that includes pursuing women on city streets.
View ArticleHas the #MeToo movement gone too far or not enough?
Actress Catherine Deneuve and 100-some other French women wrote an open letter to denounce the #MeToo campaign as becoming a witch hunt, saying the movement has created a backlash against men.
View Article'Not gay enough': Dutch authorities challenge asylum-seekers to prove their...
Lawyers and activists working with LGBT refugees in the Netherlands report that immigration authorities are increasingly demanding that people fleeing anti-gay persecution back home prove their...
View ArticleMeet the women who escorted Jane Doe to her abortion
A small clinic in McAllen, Texas, is the only abortion provider for hundreds of miles. Earlier this week when Jane Doe, an undocumented teenager held in detention, was allowed to have an abortion, this...
View ArticleSexual harassment at work is a global problem. Now, the world is finally...
The sexual harassment allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein have sparked a global conversation about the issue of harassment in the workplace. We devoted all of Friday's program to this issue.
View Article#29: Absence Of
You don't know what you don't know.Jordan Crucchiola is an associate editor at Vulture, where this spring she wrote "An Asexual's Defense of Jughead Kissing Betty on Riverdale."Ben Schwartz is a LARP...
View ArticleEgypt is raiding its LGBTQ community after rainbow flags flew at a concert....
Egypt is raiding its LGBTQ community after rainbow flags flew at a concert. And the West is silent.
View Article'The Ethicist' in the House
Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy and law at New York University, "The Ethicist" for The New York Times Magazine and author of Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (W. W. Norton,...
View ArticleSouth African artist Lady Skollie explains why she paints burning vaginas
“It’s got a burning vagina in the middle and there are all men — so it’s like they are warming themselves around a burning vagina. Which, to me, is pretty much South Africa.”
View ArticleAt 14, she tested positive for HIV — now she calls herself an HIVictor
At 14, she tested positive for HIV — now she calls herself an HIVictor
View ArticleThe key to stopping HIV could someday be a vaginal ring or a needle in the arm
“What this virus has taught is that you can be a researcher, you can design something amazing … and then people don’t use it.” That's the challenge facing medical researchers looking for ways for women...
View ArticleWhy violence is linked to the rising rate of HIV in South Africa's young women
It doesn’t help that the South African legal system has been slow to recognize violence against women.
View ArticleLesbians in Senegal just want a place where they can be themselves
Gay sex in Senegal is illegal, but there is the beginnings of a gay rights movement there. Unfortunately, it doesn't include gay women.
View ArticlePakistan's traditional third gender isn't happy with the trans movement
For centuries, South Asia has had it’s own Khawaja Sira or third gender culture. Now, some third gender people in Pakistan say the modern transgender identity is threatening their ancient third gender...
View ArticleWomen and girls are a new frontier in the fight against HIV
There's a lot to celebrate right now in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Mortality rates have been slashed, and for the first time ever, more people are getting treatment than not. But for women and...
View ArticleThe royal-turned-warlord and opium pioneer of the Golden Triangle dies at 90
The royal-turned-warlord and opium pioneer of the Golden Triangle dies at 90
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David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch — The Future of Marriage
What would it take to make our national encounter with gay marriage redemptive rather than divisive? David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch came to the gay marriage debate from very different directions...
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