Too often, people spend their careers reacting to what others expect, shifting who they are to meet every new pressure and ...

For many people, queerness is a winding, shifting, deeply personal journey. Maybe you were sure of who you were attracted to ...

HONG KONG — For author Gish Jen, Chinese Americans have gone from misfits to regular suburban teenagers to fully assimilated locals who don’t speak Mandarin and who marry whites, and in the ...

They expect their jobs to foster identity, meaning, and belonging—existential needs that used to be met in the realm of religious and traditional structures.

For that matter, what does it mean to be Japanese, Hungarian or Australian? All around the world, how we define our national identity is complicated and often fluid.

Iowa became the first state to remove gender identity from its civil rights code under a law that took effect Tuesday, ...

An essentialist view assumes that the label "refugee" carries a fixed set of characteristics that are shared by all refugees, whereas a non-essentialist view focuses on both differences and shared ...

How identity thieves stay ahead of the law 02:57. When Chief Richard Beary, the head of the University of Central Florida's police department, discovered he was the victim of identity theft, he ...