You’re twenty-two in 1975, and you’re with your bud walking past the candy store at the beach where the kids hang out, and you see two eighth-grade girls hanging out. Do you say: a) nothing b) anything or c) “Two more years.”

Being a woman is always a performance; only the very old and very young are allowed to bow out of it. The rest must play our parts with vigor but seemingly without effort.

The author on her new memoir, SICK; searching for home; and her struggle to be heard by the medical establishment.

I know how to stay safe among lions in the wild. Around men of my own species, things feel more complicated.

Female Fighters series: The activist-scholar talks about black women and militancy, and whether guns have a place in struggles for liberation.

Where are disabled people in the Time's Up movement?

Remembering a #MeToo moment in Franco’s Spain.

A philosopher rethinks what’s keeping women down.

I stretch my neck into the next life.

A cautionary tale of how criminalization impacts women across class lines.

Vanessa Grigoriadis discusses her new book about campus sexual assault in the time of Trump.