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Slasher films have notoriously played into homophobic and transphobic tropes. But queer and trans fans love them anyway, and ‘Camp Miasma’ addresses that tension head-on.
Psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams’ third book about evolutionary psychology is A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women.
Studies may include both sexes yet leave differences unexplored. That gap becomes more consequential when old evidence helps train medical AI.
What will it take for the league to survive, expand and carve out its own identity in an increasingly saturated pro sports landscape?
Nationals leader Matt Canavan says boys are ‘sick and tired of the feminisation’ of Australia’s curriculum. An education professor explains how it works.
Whether ad-libbing her way through a duet or joking about her glamorous image, Parton turned sexist assumptions into a source of power.
Women and racialized executives often outperform white men as CEOs. But that may say as much about the barriers they had to overcome to reach the top as it does about their leadership ability.
Each person is a mosaic of sex-related and postpubertal biological traits that vary in their degree of femaleness and maleness.
Biological sex isn’t always simple.
Public support for trans and gender-diverse people is declining, and that decline is being driven by political and media discourse.
A team of researchers explains why support for LGBTIQIA+ rights in Europe that is not based on homonationalist agendas, but intersectional fights against discrimination matters now more than ever.
For every generation over the last century, Australian women have been more religious than men. But these charts show gen Z is different.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requiring service members to screen for low testosterone levels. Ironically, the military lifestyle itself is more likely to lower T levels.
The AI industry is dominated by young, male tech workers. It runs the risk of developing apps and tools that reproduce these gender and age-biases.
The boundaries of heterosexuality are bending for women but not for men, who appear to have less room to explore and are bound to a more rigid, traditional concept of masculinity.
The US Supreme Court ruled that states could exclude transgender athletes from girls and women’s sports teams.
At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where visions of the nation are communicated to young people.
Research has consistently shown girls are just as capable of succeeding in maths as boys.
What grants influential women visibility and diplomatic status? Women in Diplomacy day on June 24 is an opportunity to consider how female-led efforts are recognised, valued and remembered.
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