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Posted inEditor's Pick

The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic

by Seyward Darby March 7, 2023March 7, 2023

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology.

Illustration of Pac-Man arcade game maze against a cosmic purple background
Posted inEssays & Criticism

All True At Once

by Maria Zorn March 7, 2023March 2, 2023

You made a fool of the words “feminine” and “masculine” — you were neither, you were both.

A patient in a blue and pink dress lays out estrogen injection materials on a hotel room bed.
Posted inFeature

Behind the Story: Mailee Osten-Tan on Reporting on Gender Confirmation Surgery in Thailand

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 9, 2022October 18, 2022

Mailee Osten-Tan on learning how to be a better ally to the members of marginalized communities and what she discovered while reporting on trans healthcare issues for Longreads.

Woman behind a curtain, looking out a window
Posted inFeature

Finding a Path in a Broken System

by Mailee Osten-Tan June 8, 2022October 18, 2022

Thailand is a top destination for gender confirmation surgery. Its success is a symptom of Western failure.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Female Founders Under Fire

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 7, 2020October 19, 2022

“Are women in the startup world being unfairly targeted?”

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature

There She Goes: How to ‘Feminize’ a Face

by Seyward Darby November 12, 2020October 19, 2022

How a trans woman found the surgery that could restore her sense of self.

Posted inEditor's Pick

He, She, One, They, Ho, Hus, Hum, Ita

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 29, 2020October 19, 2022

Amia Srinivasan on language and pronouns: “Language is a public system of meaning. No individual can unilaterally decide what a word means, or whether any given word, according to standard usage, truly describes them. And yet the definitions of words – as any lexicographer will tell you – depend on patterns of actual human usage, […]

Posted inNonfiction

The Danger of Desire

by Faylita Hicks April 2, 2020December 9, 2022

Faylita Hicks considers what it means to be a Black nonbinary activist in the age of Trump — and questions how the social justice movement has changed the way they have sex.

Posted inNonfiction

“The Anger of Women is an Earth-shattering Thing”: Lidia Yuknavitch on Resisting the Hero Narrative and the Body as a Generator of Stories.

by Jane Ratcliffe March 12, 2020December 16, 2022

“I’m going to say a blasphemous thing, which is we are so fucking done with the hero’s journey. It has been to our peril.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Through a Glass, Tearfully

by Maureen Stanton January 17, 2020December 30, 2022

Maureen Stanton contemplates her history of crying in inappropriate moments, and considers tears from gender-based and political perspectives.

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