Laura Kipnis

Laura Kipnis is a critic and essayist who lives in Manhattan. Her most recent book is Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis.

The old gender certainties are in chaos and the consternation is great fun to watch. I have in mind less the current usual suspects—trans folk, the nonbinary, people demanding bespoke pronouns—but an arguably more radical and world-shaking category upheaval.

Katharine Hepburn as Antiope, The Warrior’s Husband, 1932. Public domain.

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