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The restaurant is a culinary landmark in San Francisco, but its history as a space for gay visibility is little known.

Professor Amy Farrell Amy Farrell, the James Hope Caldwell Memorial Chair and professor of American studies and women’s, gender & sexuality studies, has been named a 2021–22 fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary exploration. Farrell will join an extraordinary group of artists, scientists, scholars and practitioners who will learn from and inspire one another in a year of discovery and interdisciplinary exchange in Cambridge, Mass. The acceptance rate for the class, which represents nine countries, was 2.4%, from 1,383 applicatio...

More than 100 Radcliffe College alumnae signed onto letters protesting a decision by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to adopt the vernacular name Harvard Radcliffe Institute earlier this year. The Institute announced the name change on Jan. 28, but several alumnae expressed concern after seeing it referred to as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute in a mailing in advance of Radcliffe Day later this month, after which multiple classes, including the classes of 1968 and 1971, sent letters to Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin. In a letter from the class of 1968, nearly 80 alumnae spoke out against ...

Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Women organizing to win: 9to5 yesterday; the PRO Act today March 8, 2021 2:28 PM CDT By Liz Shuler And Karen Nussbaum The original 9 to 5 movement of the 1970s won changes that are still felt today. | Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute If you’ve never had to make coffee for your boss, it’s thanks to women who organized in the 197...

Montage by Niko Yaitanes/ Harvard Magazine; images by Unsplash.  Several months before the invasion of the United States Capitol threw the nation’s seat of legislative power into peril, the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s survey on civic knowledge found that barely half of American adults can name all three branches of government, and 20 percent cannot name any rights protected by the First Amendment. Remarkably, these figures constitute  improvements on the results of the previous 15 years of this annual survey. Even more troubling, the separate World Values Survey has found that ...