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Eleven years ago, an article in Wired magazine helped establish the reputation of Asperger’s as “the geek syndrome.” As the condition has become more prominent in the popular imagination, it has acquired a close association with computer technology. One could write a whole book on the relationship between Asperger’s and cultural fascination with and anxiety about...

Some big news broke recently involving the so-called “honor killing” of four women close to where I live, and the media coverage has just been troubling to say the least. A father, his eldest son, and his second wife have been convicted of first-degree murder in the slaying of three of their daughters and his first wife.

The fact of Geeti Shafia, Sahar Shafia, Zainab Shafia, and Rona...

Call Me Kuchu is a new film that follows Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill, openly-gay activist David Kato (who was murdered three weeks after the bill was originally shot down), testaments from queer Ugandans, and the contradiction of religion, state, and identity. Its premiere this month at the Berlin Film Festival couldn’t come at a better time. I found out about the...

This morning I woke up to the news that the Census Bureau counts dad staying home with the kids as “child care arrangement” (not so much, moms who do the same thing!), and a certain, Gawker-owned “women’s issue” site posted stills of a woman being raped, but in a week of douchebags, I had to spend some time pointing out Pete Hoekstra’s racist political ad that will be...