Gender identity Archives

Gender identity

The Coming of Age

by Lucy Sante,

From I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, which was published this month by Penguin Press. For months I was preoccupied with the matter of my name.…

Basha Boosha

by Tova Reich,

You never realize how accustomed your eye grows to a familiar variety of human species in a particular place, including that place’s indigenous freaks and weirdos, until a bizarre specimen…

Unmusical Chairs

by Rebecca Solnit,

It’s often forgotten that the idea of the political spectrum—of politics having a left and right—has a physical origin. It comes from the seating arrangements at the National Assembly of…

Sons and Daughters

by Sarah A. Topol,

The village where girls turn into boys

Seminal Theories

by Christopher Oldstone-Moore,

From Of Beards and Men, by Christopher Oldstone-Moore, which will be published next month by the University of Chicago Press. Oldstone-Moore is a senior lecturer in history at Wright State…