“In my defense,” he said, “I thought you were 13.”

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.

Boys, basketball, and a disruptive act of brother-love.

Russian theater takes on the LGBT struggle.

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

On Music: Bringing back the 1990s Woman.

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.

An American pregnancy in Manila.

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.

Obsession as symptom, cause, and cure.

Darnell L. Moore and Kai M. Green write to each other about life as black feminists.

Female leaders from around the globe trade notes on building a new women’s solidarity movement.

I could tell that he preferred each and every stranger, even strangers he had not met yet, even strangers he imagined, he preferred those strangers to me.

The unforeseen consequences of a gender discrimination complaint

The author on writing for Marvel, race and invisibility, and the radicality of romance novels.

The author on depicting female friendship and fielding questions about unlikable characters.

The filmmaker and journalist on the future of girls’ education in Afghanistan, “white savior narratives,” and documentary as an antidote to compassion fatigue.

A leading researcher on the need to rescript our narratives about women and the environment.

“Divorce, a fresh start.”

The winning entry of the 2015 Center for Women Writers Prize in Creative Nonfiction

Boundaries of Nature: The scientist and writer on gender bias in the sciences and inventing new geometric forms through crochet.

A transwoman in exile.

The author on fiction as activism, feminism in Indian epics, and cooking to conjure a sense of home.