Gemma Hartley analyzes the way Christian patriarchy infects the wider culture, and why it’s so hard to escape.

Book — Non-fiction. By Michael Bronski, adapted for by Richie Chevat. 2019. 336 pages. A young adult readers edition that explores how LGBTQ people have always been a part of our national identity,…

Siân Heder’s “Being Heumann,” starring Ruth Madeley as Judy Heumann, opens TIFF as a crowd-pleasing Oscar contender for Apple following “CODA.”

Reflections on chronic lovelessness and finding love in a crushing world.

In the September edition of Reads for the Rest of Us, Ms. shares a collection of diverse and feminist reads for the month.

A powerful El Niño is already influencing extreme weather around the planet. During the last strong El Niño, federal agencies ramped up research in the hope of improving weather forecasts. This year, they won't be matching that effort.

By Atef Abu Saif

Gloria Steinem reflects on chosen family, feminism, resilience and the people who shaped her life in one of her final interviews.

A Q&A with Alexandra Lytton Regalado | For a long time, it was either the camera or the pen. If I managed to express myself visually, there was no need to describe it in writing. But now, I use…

To survive the box, you learn to fish. People on the outside call it solitary confinement, but it isn’t really, not even at a place like Upstate Correctional Facility, the supermax prison in Malone…

How does hair matter to feminism? Specifically, how does long, straight, brown, hair matter to feminism? I’m talking about Gloria Steinem’s hair. Steinem is not the only feminist; her hair is not t…

On the Cornell Seven

'The Black Schooner' examines the 1839 Amistad Rebellion, from Sierra Leone to the New Haven Trials, and an unexpected abolitionist victory.

The essays in Washington University professor G’Ra Asim’s "99 Problems Finding the 1: A Love Story (Sort of)" combine cultural criticism with his personal search for love and belonging.

Not ready to talk? Try The Trevor Project's one-minute calming exercise to help you relieve stress and anxiety.

In this damning exposé, historian Black (Picturing Indians) exhumes a sinister pattern of missing and murdered Indigenous women ...

This episode of The Becoming Podcast is for anyone who has felt like they’ve lost themselves in caregiving, or in the demands of midlife.  This month, author Kate Washington joins me on the pod to…

Richard Chew is joined by Joseph Margulies, civil rights lawyer, professor of the Practice of Government at Cornell University, and author of the 2026 book "Cast Out: A Call for a Forgiving Society…

A Cornell student’s lawsuit has sparked feminist outrage and raised questions about why survivors so need public pressure to make institutions act.

In today’s edition of Finding Art in Life, we’re talking with Gemma Hartley, the author of Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward, which stemmed from a Harper’s Bazaar essay that got…

A few of the new histories that caught our eye this month...

The right will cause great harm in the process," says Michael Bronski, "but they will lose."

Join Libro.fm, Silent Book Club, and over 400 bookstores and libraries for a Banned Books Read-In this Banned Books Week.

Medical gaslighting and paternalism isn’t just a thing of the past.

A love letter to Sonia Sanchez, who has taught generations of Black creatives to bend language, love unabashedly, and embrace the fullness of our humanity.

Judge Timothy J. Kelly issued a temporary restraining order and told the White House to immediately restore the press credentials for the employees of the three news outlets.

Review of Lorraine Boissoneault’s Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene (Beacon Books, 2026) Living with disability, particularly disability that results from a chronic illness,…

Do you love a love story and also want to lean into the immaculate spooky vibes of the ‘ber months? Here’s some of my favorite horror romance reads to get you started.

In his new book, “Cast Out: A Call for a Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration,” Joseph Margulies from the College of Arts and Sciences explores compassion and empathy, and the idea that…

The push for AI involvement in education is a Trojan horse for perpetuating racial segregation, according to this incisive debut...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing a new book called Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children. The author, our guest, Stacey Patton is an award-winning journalist, author, college professor, historian, and nationally recognized child advocate. Her scholarship and advocacy challenge corporal punishment in homes and schools and examine the historical relationship among childhood, race, violence, and power. Patton’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and other national outlets. She is also the author of Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America.

Nonfiction writer G’Ra Asim joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about his new book, 99 Problems Finding the 1: a love story (sort of). Asim discusses Afropessimism, heter…