Gender & Identity


[Image description: woman with brown hair and a dark lipstick looking at the camera against a concrete wall.] Via Joana Nix on Pexels.

I’m not Latina, I’m Hispanic —& there’s a major reason why that matters

Beatriz Valero de Urquia
The blue and red image shows a woman ornately dressed in Indian attire.

Sexuality in Hinduism: how Kama turned into a taboo

Deboparna Poddar
Caitlyn Jenner, one of the most visible white trans women, gives a talk.

White supremacy pits trans women against each other and no one wins

Jamie Saoirse O'Duibhir
A woman with brown hair folds her arms and looks out the window.

I live in a perpetual state of rape-anxiety

Izza Malik
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I sometimes wonder if I am the right person to be doing my research

Beatriz Valero de Urquia
[Image Description: Headshot of Janelle Monae, dressed as a femme robot with her face covered in a silver chain standing eyes-closed in front of a blue background with an orange sun in the center]. Via Atlantic Records.

How Janelle Monae’s ‘Dirty Computer’ helped me come out to the world

Sumaia Masoom
A woman caresses another woman’s neck, they are looking at each other.

Is my sexuality valid without a label?

Anonymous
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This pandemic has robbed me of a sense of home

Mishma Nixon
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I’m Kashmiri – poetry helped me embrace that

Anusha Wangnoo

My name is not difficult to pronounce

Kajal Premnath
Me

I’m not sure when or where I lost my voice

Mitta Thakrar

Motherhood does not have to define womanhood

Modupe Adio