The History of Gay Conservatism
LGBTQ voters overwhelmingly went for Harris, but the idea that gay voters are always going to be solidly blue is a myth.
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Frozen Freedom
Artificial Reproductive Technologies like egg freezing are on the rise. For the professional-managerial class women who can afford them, they provide an uneasy freedom that stimulates ambivalence about motherhood, paralysis about mating, and compulsion around costly procedures.
Is Trump Hitler, or just… Woodrow Wilson?
Comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini obscures the basis of his mass appeal, prevents us from confronting the neoliberal center, and demonizes a large segment of the population that we’d like to win over. There are better analogies out there, and ones that are closer to home.
Working Mother
The radical pamphleteer Susannah Wright does not fit neatly into the contemporary feminist imaginary. She is a woman these feminists would like to forget: a woman who understood her class allegiances and fought for the universalism of an objective, shared reality.
The Guardian That Never Sleeps
For almost ninety years mass anxieties about kidnapping and child abuse have driven the development of surveillance technologies focused on seeing and hearing children. How might these technologies impact the relationships between mothers and children?
In Pursuit of the Family
Some of our biggest social crises could be solved by a major investment in one of the smallest social institutions.
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, 50 Years On
In their groundbreaking pamphlet, Ehrenreich and English railed against a medical system that suppressed and sidelined women. Fifty years later, their radical anti-authoritarianism is increasingly powerless against—and sometimes even an accelerant for—the ongoing commodification of healthcare.
