It’s only a flesh wound
Changing attitudes or just a practical measure? Unisex toilets are becoming more common in many countries

Gender has become such a mainstream word that in some contexts it has become a misplaced substitute for sex. It as if people feel that it is no longer safe or politically correct to say the word sex. So what is the difference between sex and gender?

Human sperm

Natural selection’s coming to get you, and it’s not just because of what’s in your genes!

A Nganga in the Cuban province of Cienfuegos, 2007. Photo by Ana Stela Almeida Cunha

Where does your body end and the rest of the world begin? An encounter with witchcraft in Cuba.

Augustín Fuentes

Think that men and women are totally different? Think again. Why our assumptions about race, gender and aggression are wrong – and dangerous.