Over the past year, the image of the “performative male” has entered mainstream media. He has a classic image: drinking a matcha latte, wearing a quarter-zip, wired headphones dangling from his neck, ...

My introduction to any kind of feminist thought can be traced back to my freshman English class at Hampton University. The first day, I showed up late and sported a Malcolm X T-shirt. My professor was ...

I started writing this piece by reiterating my usual spiel about why I’m a late-blooming feminist and why it’s important for all people to be feminists. But no one wants to hear that. No one likes to ...

Alexis Grenell writing for the June 12/19 issue of the Nation: The drumbeat for Senator Dianne Feinstein to resign has reached a kind of dull fever pitch. . . . That includes men who identify as ...

So, what’s the difference between “Male Studies” and “Men’s Studies”? According to Tiger, Male Studies emerged “from the notion that male and female organisms really are different” and the “enormous ...

This isn’t the first time I have brought this up, but it bears repeating because of some recent conversations I had with fellow women’s college alumna (all different women’s colleges, including myself ...

Meeting my husband was like grabbing onto the landing skids of the last chopper out of Saigon. Looking back, that was the actual moment I narrowly escaped life as a clueless pagan, a half-baked ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...