Transgender Politics Didn’t Have to End Up Here
Democratic Party leaders and their donors bear responsibility for the increasingly widespread view of trans rights as incompatible with a politics that benefits the many, not the few.
4 Articles by: Joanna Wuest
Joanna Wuest is an assistant professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College and an incoming assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Stony Brook University (SUNY). She is the author of Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement (University of Chicago Press, 2023).
The Best Way to Secure LGBTQ Rights: Unions
Labor’s ability to improve queer workers’ lives stems from its power to raise standards for all workers.
The Right Pushes Culture War to Mask Its Unpopular Agenda
In Who’s Afraid of Gender?, Judith Butler seeks to explain the global right’s obsession with gender. Their latest book, however, fails to see that the aim of conservative scapegoating is to legitimize an unpopular political program.
Labor Has Only One Candidate: Bernie Sanders
At the Philadelphia Workers’ Presidential Summit, Joe Biden disappointed while Elizabeth Warren didn’t even bother to show. Only Bernie Sanders has the plan and the record to help bring the labor movement back.