Gender, Race and Identity

If You Don’t Know, Now You Know: An Interview with Eddie Huang Eddie Huang is a chef, writer, TV host, fashion designer, speaker, and producer based in New York City and Los Angeles, whose work is recognized for bridging food with music, culture, comedy, politics, and metropolitan life. He is widely known as the chef […]

Galen Baughman is an Open Society Foundations Soros Justice Fellow working to end the practice of civilly committing youth as sexually violent predators. Starting when he was still just a teenager, Galen was imprisoned for nine years, including four and a half years in solitary confinement. Today, he brings his experiences to audiences around the […]

BY TOM TRAILL Nobody has ever catcalled me.  God knows I’ve tried: short shorts, no top, the whole caboodle.  But however much I’m “asking for it,” it never happens. I can’t experience it.  I have to believe the reported accounts I’m given that it does happen to women. *** Another thing I haven’t experienced and […]

The below interview is with Dr. Eunice Avilés, one of the panelists participating in the LGBTQ Policy Journal’s event next Tuesday, February 16, 2016: Mala Mala Film Screening and Trans* Inclusive Policy Discussion. We ask Dr. Avilés some questions about her work and remaining challenges for creating innovative policy solutions for the trans community. Dr. Eunice Avilés […]

Amir Ashour is a human rights activist and the founder of Iraqueer, the first and only organization for the LGBTIQ+ community in Iraq and Kurdistan region. IraQueer aims at increasing the visibility and the awareness amongst and about the local LGBTIQ+ community. In a region where homosexuality is criminalized and queer people face horrific violence, […]

Only days before the February 1st beginning of Black History/African-Heritage/Black Future month, the internet– or should I say black Twitter, erupted in fiery chatter when it was revealed that not all black people agree on its necessity. Why dedicate an entire month to celebrating the contributions of Africans and African-Americans to the world? Rather than entertain […]

I had the pleasure to sit down with Elysia Chandler, who recently authored the City of Cambridge’s first report on healthcare for LGBTQ seniors in Cambridge.  In 2014, Elysia and the Cambridge GLBT Commission began assessing how the policies and practices of healthcare organizations in Cambridge support the needs of LGBTQ seniors.  Released late last […]

BY CAROLINE GIMMILLARO It’s engagement season. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter feeds around the United States are exploding with engagement announcements and offers of congratulations. A deluge of engagement pictures, engagement party invites, and Pinterest wedding boards are sure to follow. For most American women in heterosexual relationships, this excitement will be accompanied by the question […]

Introduction This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first wave of Vietnamese Americans arriving in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of Southern Vietnamese fled their homeland after the Communist North captured Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) on April 30, 1975. Over the next two decades, waves of political refugees breathed new life […]

BY LAUREN WINDMEYER Last month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would take two months paternity leave following the birth of his first child. This announcement exemplifies a trend in the tech world towards improved benefits for new parents – this year alone, Amazon, Netflix, and Microsoft have all announced extended parental leave. This is of […]

    As public awareness has risen about the dismal state of sexual assault prevention and response on college campuses, American universities have scrambled to improve their policies and programming. As administrators at a university in Iraqi Kurdistan with an American-style educational system, we decided to be proactive and create a sexual misconduct policy laying […]

Dr. Mamphela Ramphele gave a lecture in September this year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University titled “Can African Women Redefine Liberation for All?” The video of her lecture can be viewed here. Dr. Ramphele, a former World Bank managing director and political party leader in South Africa, sat down with the […]