Few people understand the many rules, rituals, and paranoias of masculinity better than trans femmes. We come of age in its shadow, trying and often failing to perform an acceptable vision of manhood.

EXCLUSIVE: Run-A-Muck, the recently launched, creator-led media company from Pamela Drucker Mann, Ilene Chaiken, and Jennifer Beals, is developing a feature adaptation Stag Dance, a recent novella by ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. There’s little about Stag Dance’s premise that broadcasts relatability, familiarity ...

In the early 20th century, a lumberjack nicknamed Babe Bunyan (“Bunyan” after folkloric axman Paul Bunyan; “Babe” after his strong ox) is working in an illegal logging camp during winter, when timber ...