Theory
Dušica Popović
But women are not only vulnerable; they are also agents. They make decisions that are neither morally spotless nor self-sacrificial, decisions that may be pragmatic, ambiguous, or driven by interests that do not align with idealized images of feminist virtue.
Roman Kuhar
The content circulating in the manosphere rests on three pillars: narratives of a masculinity crisis, pseudoscientific theories of sex and gender, and motivational advice on how to get rich and “win” women.
Judith Butler
The protection of extramural speech is crucial for understanding the relationship of democracy to higher education.
Verica Rekić
The struggle for queer liberation should not only oppose increasingly vocal conservative demands but also the seemingly well-intentioned neoliberal capitalism.
Sohrab Ahmari
In practical terms, Foucault’s and his followers’ assault against sexual normalization has helped bring about institutions that disavow normativity at every turn. And yet the sexually abnormal figure is still obliged to confess, to reveal a true inner identity.
Year 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault. Four decades after complications from AIDS brought his career to a premature end, the French philosopher continues to top rankings of the most-cited scholars in the humanities.
Kate Redburn
"Sexual Hegemony", an ambitious retelling of the history of capitalism through the politics of gay sex, arrives just in time to help dissuade us of the idea that we have reached the end of gay history.
Vukoman Milenković
The reforms he enacted were responses to pressure from below: the cries of Gaza, the persistence of women serving the Church without a voice, the faith of LGBT Christians who refused to renounce God.
To say there is no future, or that the future moves only in the direction of greater destruction, then we are still imagining something, even if it is a dark picture, one that shows no signs of hope. If we are imagining a fatal conclusion, we are still imagining.
Erica West
Rather than seeing men as the core source of women’s oppression, we must identify class society as the culprit. Fighting capitalism remains the only path toward women’s full liberation.
Cameron Shackell
Foucault brilliantly analyzed the panopticon and that analysis is relevant to social media.
Amia Srinivasan
There is no entitlement to sex, and everyone is entitled to want what they want, but personal preferences – no dicks, no fems, no fats, no blacks, no arabs, no rice no spice, masc-for-masc – are never just personal.
Finn McKay
The US activist, who has been falsely accused of denying the importance of sex, makes a plangent appeal for gender diversity
Martha Nussbaum
If two people want to commit a marital sort, they should be permitted to do so, and excluding one class of citizens from the benefits and dignity of that commitment demeans them and insults their dignity.
Jules Joanne Gleeson
I will distinguish between two commonplace understandings of how transitions unfold. The first centers transitions as the consequence of trans people overcoming an array of hurdles on a personal level.
The attacks on so-called “gender ideology” have grown in recent years throughout the world, dominating public debate stoked by electronic networks and backed by extensive right-wing Catholic and evangelical organizations.