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Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below

Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below

Moviegoers back in 2015 who saw the film The Danish Girl may have first heard the story there of Lili Elbe, the first known recipient of gender-affirming surgery in the early 1930s, then uncharted, experimental medical territory.

Moviegoers back in 2015 who saw the film The Danish Girl may have first heard the story there of Lili Elbe, the first known recipient of gender-affirming surgery in the early 1930s, then uncharted, experimental medical territory.

Transition, however real, is achieved at least partly by means of fiction, that it is through story-making that...

Lili Elbe, birth name Einar Wegener, Einar also spelled Ejner, (born December 28, 1882, Vejle, Denmark—died September 13, 1931, Dresden, Germany), Danish painter who was assigned male at birth, experienced what is now called gender dysphoria, and underwent the world’s first documented sex reassignment surgery. Born Einar Wegener, Elbe lived nearly her whole life as a man. Beginning early in the first decade of the 20th century, Elbe (then Wegener) studied art at the Royal Danish Academy of ...

Blurbs had been used in publishing long before they had a name. One of the earliest examples of a book blurb in the United States was penned by none...

In the world of film awards, not all winners are worthy winners. As we wait for the Academy Awards to happen on March 12, we are taking a look at past films which have won Oscars

The end of the year brings the end of many licensing agreements for streaming services, so load up your queues now.

Rebecca Godfrey, who mapped the complex landscape of teenage transgression with exquisite detail and precise language in a novel, “The Torn Skirt