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Gender identity

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…

The Grand Shattering

by Sarah Manguso,

I never wanted to be a mother. I wanted to be a person. My identity crisis began at age three, when I wanted to be Popeye but realized that I…

Get on your bikes and ride

by Harper’s Staff,

Who am I?

by Harper’s Staff,

An economist drops a bomb

by Deirdre N. McCloskey,

I am mauve, hear me roar

by Martine Aliana Rothblatt,

Unmasculine

by Harper’s Staff,

Too open about it

by Harper’s Staff,

The little girl who should have been a boy

by Annie Hamilton Donnell,