Tomboy

In this French film a 10-year-old girl moves into a new neighborhood and pretends to be a boy because, well, it seems like boys just have more fun.

"...of childhood that it depicts. It’s a story about gender identity set in the prepubescent years before physical attributes,..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Stage Beauty

Victor/Victoria meets Shakespeare in Love at A Star Is Born in this gender-bending backstage story.

"...nemesis and beyond. In a film as rich with gender confusion as this, after a while you begin to..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Triumph of Love

"...film version of Marivaux's comedy of romantic deception and gender disguise. The story is the stuff of silly drawing..."

May 17, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Better Than Sex

"...vs. Swallow Dilemma constitutes an advance in the Great Gender Debate. (It doesn't.) What exactly first-time feature writer/director Jonathan..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sex: The Annabel Chong Story

"...name, Grace Quek, and was a 22-year-old undergraduate in gender studies) had sex with 251 men over the course..."

June 2, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beautiful Girls

"...host of characters who align themselves according to their gender; it's a dynamic rooted in pre-adolescence, a girls-versus-boys thing..."

Feb. 9, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Orlando

Freely adapted by writer-director Sally Potter from Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel, the movie attempts nothing less than the deconstruction of Western civilization's patriarchal underpinnings, with Tilda Swinton as the title character who appears in nearly every shot.

"...how different social milieus both re-invent and perpetuate differentiated gender identities. The story begins in 1603 as the aged..."

Oct. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

New Documentary Every Body Illuminates the “I” in LGBTQIA

Local intersex activist Alicia Roth Weigel talks new doc

"...2% of the population that is living proof that gender is more shades of grey than black and white...."

June 30, 2023 Screens Post by Lina Fisher

“Ludicrous” Bills Target Trans, Intersex Youth

Senate Bill 1646 would codify any gender-affirming care for minors as child abuse

"...1646 (by Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock) would codify any gender-affirming care, including hormone replacement therapy and surgical procedures, for..."

April 16, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Qmmunity: 2020 Hopefuls Tackle Queer Rights Convo

Gender Unbound, AIDS Walk with Big Freedia, Butch Queen, and more

"...Gender Unbound Arts Fest Austin's trans and intersex art fest..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Qmmunity: It Takes a Village

Plus new queer music, queer history dishing, and the return of Gender Unbound

"...panel discussion on what it means to be a “gender defier” in the POC community. Wed., Sept. 18, 6:30pm...."

Sept. 13, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Austin’s Queer Residents Address Needs at City Forum

LGBTQ Commission received feedback to forecast funding

"...operator followed standard procedure to dispatch officers, asking the gender of the person in danger: male or female...."

March 8, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Lilli Hime

How Women Are Changing the World of Wine by Reclaiming the Vine

Wonder Women of Wine advocates for gender equality and diversity in the wine industry

"...are women – she realized most had also faced gender bias throughout their careers, manifested in a number of..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Planned Parenthood Offers Hormone Therapy

The health care provider offers its hormone therapy program at two locations

"...this month, Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas began offering gender affirming hormone therapy to transgender and gender nonconforming patients...."

April 21, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

UT's Queer Greek Life

An all-inclusive queer sorority founded at UT-Austin

"...tradition, have been built on heteronormative structures and strict gender binary codes...."

Jan. 25, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Courtney Naquin

Equity? Or Strategy?

"Family & Traditional Values Centers" at state universities?

"...Values in an amount equitable to that spent on gender and sexuality centers...."

April 5, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Julie Gillis

Queen for a Day

Mingling with royalty has gone to your humble Gay Place's head.

"...Gender in and of itself carries enough expectation baggage. But..."

Aug. 13, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Shane Whalley Won’t Back Down

Daring Dialogues founder on how DEI bans affect queer Texans

"...bills targeting them, including Senate Bill 14, which bans gender affirming care for trans minors, and Senate Bill 17,..."

June 26, 2023 Qmmunity Post by Adam Cherian

Don't Worry Darling

Even Florence Pugh can't save this heavy-handed thriller

"...impactful about the way men and women strain under gender expectations; ironically, the discourse around the movie – including..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Texas House Passes Anti-Trans Sports Bill

HB 25 bans trans students from teams matching their gender identity

"...school sports team that doesn’t align with their assigned gender at birth...."

Oct. 15, 2021 News Post by Beth Sullivan

Qmmunity: Lessons From the Past for the Present

Plus, Gender Unbound and Austin Asian American Film Festival kick off virtual programming

"...Gender Unbound Virtual Showcase Throughout September, Austin's arts fest celebrating..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan

Like a Boss

Unpleasant workplace comedy didn't get the memo about jokes

"...It’s a bust in so many ways. The halfhearted gender and cultural political incorrectness of Hayek’s ridiculous character makes..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

AISD Previews New Sex Ed Lessons

Updated curriculum addresses sexual orientation, gender identity, and consent

"...have some parents worried, such as sexual orientation and gender identity. One of the lessons written by AISD staff..."

May 24, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

What Men Want

Because we needed a remake of What Women Want, apparently

"...Taraji P. Henson swirls through the gender-flipped comedy What Men Want like the Tasmanian devil, giving..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part

Everything is still pretty awesome as this sequel builds on the first film

"...LEGO Movie 2 may be faulted for its traditional gender biases, the big brother/little sister conflict mines territory with..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

On the Basis of Sex

RBG biopic focuses on a single case, but blurs the details

"...case that kicked off her decades-long career fighting against gender-based discrimination and for equal rights. The film opens to..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story

Lisbeth Salander is back, and now she's James Bond

"...has created an interior world that incorporates her nonchalant gender fluidity and her worldview of the systemic patriarchy and..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Wife

Glenn Close is icily brilliant as a woman who refuses to be diminished

"...in a student-teacher setup that bakes power imbalance and gender expectations into their very foundation – her sacrifices start..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Babes Fest Thrives

How to art female empowerment

"...third Babes Fest not only addressed the problem of gender inequality in the arts, but proposed solutions during three..."

Sept. 3, 2018 Music Post by Clara Wang

Juliet, Naked

Nick Hornby adaptation debunks the myth of authenticity

"...scalpel-like clarity, of a particular kind of fandom, whose gender (surprise!) is mostly straight white male...."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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