The model of aggression and dominance has infected human society. But new research shows how wrong we got it.

“Some folks can call energy masculine and feminine, but I like to deal with it in terms of hardness versus softness,” Janelle Monáe says, in a new interview. “I strive to be more like water than a hard rock.”

Trained as a painter, she became a cartoonist after moving to San Francisco in the seventies and discovering the raw power of the underground-comix movement that introduced confessional autobiography to the medium.

Women are still defying and dying in an uprising that is historically unique for being centered on women’s freedom.

The female image is ubiquitous on social media, yet when it comes to pictures of parents with their children many moms feel disappeared.

In subtle, unpredictable ways, the French director is determined to move beyond received ideas of filmmaking.

Margaret Wise Brown constantly pushed boundaries—in her life and in her art.

Kristen Visbal, the creator of the financial-district statue that has become a feminist icon, is fighting for her right to create and sell other versions of the art work to cities around the world.

Will the Roman Catholic Church ever ordain priests who are not men? Plenty of women feel that they have a priestly vocation, and many Catholics support them: according to a survey from the Pew Research Center, roughly six in ten Catholics in the United States say that the Church should allow women to become priests, and priests to marry.

Two pioneering Black writers have not received the recognition they deserve for chronicling one of the country’s gravest crimes.