A tender portrait of a golden youthful summer spent exploring gender, "Tomboy" is the perfect balm to the recent attacks on trans kids. A lot has happened in the world since Texas governor Greg Abbott ...

The tomboy conjures an image of a girl in overalls and baseball hats, wearing short hair and nondescript shoes. She probably isn’t into Barbie. When the term “tomboy” first appeared, in the mid-16th ...

Brittany Aldean's seemingly transphobic Instagram-video caption from August 23 is continuing to amass critics and fans, but one thing that's gotten lost in the conversation is an interrogation of the ...

Some first-wave feminists, who worked tirelessly to secure women’s right to vote, were raised under what was then a newfangled, 19th-century parenting style that encouraged girls to have some version ...

This essay explores the circulation of the figure of the tomboy within queer Filipinx diasporic culture. In particular, I examine “That’s My Tomboy!” a segment of It’s Showtime, the popular Philippine ...

This may sound surprising to some, but Juno, released in 2008, was probably the first time I saw an unashamed tomboy take center stage on the silver screen. Since watching the movie for the first time ...