Preserving Black Women’s Stories as a Labor of Love

An interview with anthropologist Irma McClaurin dives into the process and meaning behind creating an archival home for Black feminist work.

Matryoshka Song

An Indigenous anthropologist-poet speaks to the Russian colonization of Alaska from 1784–1867 and how stereotypes and histories shape the lives of Indigenous women.

Rethinking Masculinity: Fathers as Caregivers

An anthropologist explores whether the qualities fathers acquire though caregiving shifts their understandings of manhood.

Sexism Still Winning at the Olympic Games

Old ideas about gender are unfairly baked into sporting regulations and guidance. That should change.

Sex in Sport: Men Don’t Always Have the Advantage

Research shows that real differences exist in athletic capacities, on average, between men and women. But they cut both ways.

Anti-Asian Racism’s Deep Roots in the United States

SAPIENS talks with anthropologist Kyeyoung Park about anti-Asian violence and Asian Americans’ fraught sense of belonging in the U.S.

Stop Erasing Transgender Stories From History

Remembering that human sex and gender lie across a spectrum in the past is vital to curbing violence toward gender-nonconforming people today.

When Kinship Is Traced Through Women, Their Health Follows

A study finds that there may be health benefits when family ties are linked through mothers and women head households.

The Untold Stories of Archaeology’s Women

Stories of pioneering women in the “digging” sciences have been skewed toward those who were White, wealthy, and networked. The TrowelBlazers project aims to reset our imagination—and our future.

Women at the Hearth and on the Hunt

New archaeological findings about hunting challenge entrenched beliefs about gender roles in ancient hunter-gatherer societies.