Society / Gender
Articles about Gender, ordered by date. 
Agony Uncle
Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. This month: Travel.
Sign of the Times
Trans healthcare matters, by Alice McCool.
The trans revolution
In a time of toxic ‘culture wars’, it may be hard to see the liberating potential of transgender rights for us all. But this piece from 2015, by Vanessa Baird, did just that – while taking a pop at the tyranny of the binary.
Chosen family
Tooba Syed on how Pakistan’s gender non-conforming community are fighting renewed attacks on their age old existence and customs – through queer kinship.
As his comrades argue about trans women, a reader feels conflicted.
Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.
Agony Uncle
Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.
Agony Uncle
Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.
What if...
...we scrapped the gender binary on official documents? Vanessa Baird suggests a world beyond M or F.
Our bodies, our rights
According to the UN, most surgeries on intersex babies amount to torture. And yet that is the practice in almost every country in the world today. Valentino Vecchietti calls for urgent change.
The persistence of patriarchy
Renowned US feminist Cynthia Enloe reveals how patriarchy is adapted and sustained by its adherents – knowledge which is essential to challenging it
Deliver us from Venus and Mars
Newspapers love to dish up stories of inherent differences between the sexes because we lap them up. Gavin Evans reflects on why we are still so susceptible.
Articles in this category displayed as a table:
| Article title | From magazine | Publication date |
|---|---|---|
| Agony Uncle | Spying on dissent | November, 2023 |
| Sign of the Times | Decolonize now | September, 2023 |
| Borderlines | Decolonize now | September, 2023 |
| The trans revolution | Loneliness | May, 2023 |
| Chosen family | Loneliness | May, 2023 |
| As his comrades argue about trans women, a reader feels conflicted. | Democracy on the edge | March, 2021 |
| Athletics | Democracy on the edge | March, 2021 |
| Agony Uncle | The fight for clean air | May, 2020 |
| Agony Uncle | How we make poverty | March, 2020 |
| What if... | Building a new internationalism | March, 2019 |
| Our bodies, our rights | Making peace in a world at war | September, 2018 |
| The persistence of patriarchy | Brazil's soft coup | October, 2017 |
| Deliver us from Venus and Mars | Bad Education | September, 2017 |
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