It's Not A Zero Sum Game

Today is the anniversary of the death of George Orwell, so it seems like a good day to tackle a topic that he is famous for defending: ...

   The word sex has many meanings. From the OED:  1 a. Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many...

               ‘70% of communication is nonverbal’. I really hate that cliché, because I’m a words person. To me, carefully chosen and lo...

I wrote about women's work recently, and ever since then people have been sending me examples of how that work is hidden, ignored, def...

  On a recent visit to Stockholm, I was amused to encounter an exhibit in its excellent historical museum titled “The Bäckaskog woman” ....

China Mievile's The City and The City is a novel whose plot happens in two cities that occupy the same physical space. Interleaved and...

   Dear Paris, Let me tell you a little bit about what street harassment – or “catcalling” as you term it – has meant in my life. Per...

   Gender is not the straightforward assertion that some people play with dolls while others play with trucks; it is the assertion that...