Gay Marriage Hurts My Breasts
by: Yasmin Nair Note: This piece was originally featured on the author’s blog and was reposted after copious amounts of begging. You can find the original here. To support Yasmin’s […]
Category Archives: Gender
Donate to the Kickstarter Campaign: Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger
by: The Qu We love Kate Bornstein. Recently, her memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, was reviewed by The Qu‘s very own Ben Kramer in his monthly book review, Fag Rags. Stay tuned […]
Laying It All La Barbe: Approaching Gender Inequality at Cannes
by: Greg Sato Yet another rumble at Cannes: La Barbe, a French feminist direct action group, wrote an open letter published in Le Monde and held a demonstration outside of […]
A Revelation Upon Revelations: The Ignored African Diaspora
by: Rohan Lewis A few weeks, I saw Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, a remarkable dance company renowned for its origins in Afro-centric ideology, paradigm and discourse. I will not deny that […]
Fairest of Them All: The Disney Princess-ification of Femininity
by: Mimi Nguyen Once upon a time, I became friends with a princess. Cindy and I met a couple months after I moved into a Chicago. She was very pretty […]
Working With My Bits: Finding My Sexuality Since I Was Seven
by: Timothy Lalowski Writer’s warning: Not for all types of innocence levels. This is a looking glass into the fucked up world we call my mind. I suggest to my […]
We Do Exist!: Anna Paquin, Bisexual Invisibility, and Internalized Heterophobia
by: Raechel T Every campus organization at the University of Minnesota has the opportunity to advertize by painting a block on the bridge that connects our East Bank campus to […]
Sensitive With A Flamethrower Strapped To His Back: An Examination of the New Alpha Male in Cinema
by: Dominick Mayer “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.” – Abraham Lincoln Note: If you haven’t seen the film Bellflower, seriously stop reading this and […]
Confessions of a Queer (Trans*)humanist
by: Brynn West Trans*. It rolls off my tongue so easy now. It just sounds natural now. It’s a part of who I am: a trans woman, a trans feminist, […]
Twinkhate: Confronting the Biases Against Effeminate Males
by: Patrick Gill and Nico Lang Patrick: No matter what my body has ever looked like I have always seen it as fat; I think that was the predominate source […]
