Even after coming out, this writer had to unearth and confront the negative assumptions she unknowingly held about same-sex relationships.
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The author of the timely new book, ‘Cultish,’ breaks down the strange gender dynamics of cults and explains why women appear to be drawn in more often than men.
After more than a year of the COVID shutdown and a separation from a 20-plus-year marriage, the writer harbored Xanadu fantasies that wheelie-shoes would provide much-needed joy. If...
When municipalities settle sexual assault and harassment suits with taxpayers' money, Americans literally pay for the sexual predation we seem unwilling to confront.
Trans people have been under assault, by GOP legislators, the Religious Right, white nationalists—and anti-trans feminists. And it's now escalating to an all-out war.
The DSM removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses in 1973. So why did the author's mother lose everything—including her kids—when she left her abusive husband for a...
Growing up, women were fed a steady diet of mixed messages of what motherhood entailed. I discovered I needed to define what it meant for me.
When two cis-female anti-trans professors were uninvited to give talks, they were presented in the U.K. press as “victims” of cancel culture. But in the fight for trans rights,...
Sometimes, we are born to toxic moms. But, as this writer has discovered, no matter what we do to protect ourselves, our bond with them is inescapable.