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My father was eight years old when his mother died. Black and white photographs of my paternal grandmother from 1940s India hang in my parents’ living room. Growing up, I had always noticed a sad ...

In any American news cycle, there are certain inevitabilities, a kind of call-and-response between an event and its coverage that you can generally expect to see. When a trend crests on TikTok, a ...

A 27-foot-long container truck featuring a rotating display of artwork will hit the road next week from New York City to embark on a cross-country exhibition about the myriad facets of bodily autonomy ...

Women, trans people, and those with non-conforming gender identities have faced a barrage of attacks this year as conservative institutions try to control and police their bodies. This has manifested ...

Cultural scholars note the irony, suggesting that China's modern 'armpit-hair shame' is actually an imported Western ...