The social justice comedian on her embarrassing patriotism, bringing public policy to the stage, and making white people laugh.
The Girl on Girl art collective’s pink feminist newsstand.
The writer and performance artist on how queer people of color birth themselves anew, protest politics in Canada, and the poetic beauty of complicated relationships.
Fear of homosexuality leaves both gay and straight kids vulnerable.
The Future of Cities: The journalist and She Shapes the City co-founder on the women behind Nairobi’s rapidly changing identity.
Bearing witness to the abusive relationships of others
When my father became my mother, gender reassignment in Appalachia.
The performance artists on the racial history of drag, jokes as a means of survival, and leaving room for paradox.
The genre-bending writer on queering history and restoring lost voices to American fiction.
Ina May Gaskin’s Spiritual Midwifery and the back-to-the-land movement.
