When I was a child, my parents told me identity stories. My favorite was the story of my great-grandfather on my father’s side, who moved from a village in India to the city of Bombay, carrying ...

Personal identity links who we are, once were, and could become. Though seemingly fixed, identity can be modified. Indeed, identity transformation is sometimes necessary, even therapeutic—e.g., to ...

Many of us grow up believing that life works from the outside in. If the money improves, we’ll feel secure. If the relationship stabilizes, we’ll feel loved. If the schedule opens up, we’ll finally ...

Fifty years removed from winning their first Stanley Cup, the Philadelphia Flyers are not the Broad Street Bullies of the 1970s. For fans who have followed the team since those days, and maybe even ...

Cecilia Gentili couldn’t stand the looks on their faces. The looks waiting room patients would give her when a nurse called a man’s name and she stood up instead. The looks nurses would give her when ...

There were certainly gunslingers, cowboys, cattle rustlers, and prospectors among the Jews who settled the 19th-century American West, but most plied the same trade as Jews had since the Middle Ages — ...

How do you tell a partner (who seems very committed) that your sexual identity is changing and you feel the need to explore that? Relationships are a dance of ongoing moments of consent, negotiations ...