Shortfalls point to ongoing barriers—including stigma, limited clinic accessibility, and hurdles concerning women.

Mark Twain famously said, “History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” I’ve been thinking about the political historian ...

Some transgender people alter their physical characteristics via social, hormonal, and/or surgical changes to embody the ...

Shortfalls point to ongoing barriers—including stigma, limited clinic accessibility, and hurdles concerning women.

Brazil is on a mission to end its status as Latin America’s largest supplier of sex slaves. In recent months the government has joined international sting operations, passed a new law and launched a ...

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, adulthood or both.

A transgendered English professor spends a year teaching in her old identity as a man. This fall, Justine Nicholas reveals her new gender identity to students and teachers and receives some surprising ...

In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...

When Sabrina Carpenter recently opened as host for NBC’s Saturday Night Live, she didn’t hold back. “Since you’re here, I want to clear up some misconceptions people have about me,” she said with a ...

The Twilight Saga is back on Netflix, and like many millennials and Gen Zers, I’ve fallen into a full-blown rewatch spiral. But this time, it hit differently. When I watch Bella Swan wasting away, ...

As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...