There is a widely held belief that contraception is the responsibility of people who menstruate. In both everyday life and the research on family planning, people assigned male at birth, usually men, ...

A line of wind turbines alongside a long bike path. “ Eemmeerdijk ” by Floris M. Oosterveld is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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New & Noteworthy Not Your Feminism, Not Your TERF by Jordyn Wald explores the rise of trans-exclusionary rhetoric within feminist movements. While most feminists support transgender rights, a small ...

Often, instructors are tasked with career advising for our majors. Check out this review by Catherine Solomon in Teaching Sociology of The Employable Sociologist: A Guide for Undergraduates (Martinez ...

The centaur scene in Disney’s highly acclaimed cartoon Fantasia (1940) clearly communicates gendered expectations for men and women, but there are also racial politics. First, note that, in the film ...

White trash. For many, the name evokes images of trailer parks, meth labs, beat-up Camaros on cinder blocks, and poor rural folks with too many kids and not enough government cheese. It’s a put-down, ...

Protesters in Little Rock, Arkansas, (1959) declared that “race mixing” (or school integration) was “communism”: A reader at Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish argues that accusations of communism then, ...

Robin H., Tomi L., and Kate McL. asked us to talk about the new movie, Avatar. Tomi thought the gender politics were great, with men and women as equals fighting and ruling side-by-side. I think she’s ...

Every once in a while the internet is abuzz being horrified by vintage ads for Lysol brand douche. The ads seem to suggest that women are repulsing their husbands with odorous vaginas caused by ...

Christie W. sent in an idea that inspired me to revive our pointlessly gendered products post. It’s a fun one. I’ve added Christie’s submission — a super-pink for-her version of a continuous positive ...