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Social media can provide ways for LGBTQ youth to learn more about, and stay connected to, their identities. miakievy/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

September 28, 2021

Social media gives support to LGBTQ youth when in-person communities are lacking

While online communities may not fully address the isolation LGBTQ youth face in-person, they can serve as an important source of social support and a springboard for civic engagement.

Pride parade in London 2017. Peter O'Connor aka anemoneprojectors/Flickr

March 23, 2020

How a gender conspiracy theory is spreading across the world

Marta Marchlewska, Polish Academy of Sciences and Aleksandra Cichocka, University of Kent

One in three Polish people believe in a ‘gender conspiracy’, according to new reserach.

Dalia Yashar, one of the first Saudi female students in training to become commercial pilot, pictured on July 15, 2018. Her future passengers will include solo women travelers, too. Reuters/Hamad I Mohammed

August 8, 2019

Saudi women are fighting for their freedom – and their hard-won victories are growing

Alainna Liloia, University of Arizona

Saudi women may now travel without a man’s permission, easing one of the most repressive aspects of the country’s ‘guardianship’ system. Women in Saudi Arabia gained the right to drive last year.

With strong female leads such as Rey, Star Wars merchandise has tended to be sold in its own ‘destination’ section of stores rather than gendered toy aisles.

June 5, 2018

Beyond pink and blue: the quiet rise of gender-neutral toys

Jason Bainbridge, University of South Australia

Ken dolls with a ‘man bun’. Female superhero action figures. At long last, the gendered distinctions of the pink and blue toy aisles are starting to break down.

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