(alphabetically by last name of Artist)
(alphabetically by last name)
by Eleanor J. Bader Prior to the 1960s, women and girls heard a steady banter when it came to sports: …
by Zerlina Maxwell “I’m going to make it to the Olympics!” I shrieked as a knot formed in my throat …
Featuring the poetry of Kathleen Aguero, Judith Barrington, Carolyn Martin, and Penelope Scambly Schott; Curated by Poetry Co-editor Judith Arcana. …
by Lu Bailey This year, my 10 year-old told me that she wanted to try out for the cheerleading squad …
by Christine Stark I could say soccer saved me, but it wouldn’t be true. I saved myself, as a girl, …
by The Editors The convergence of two events this summer brings excitement and attention to women in sports — the …
by Amanda Marcotte As a journalist who specializes in reproductive health, I have the unique opportunity to meet a variety …
by Jasmine Burnett The Black feminist group, the Combahee River Collective, described its beginnings by saying: “It was our experience and disillusionment …
by Justine Goodman I am the daughter of a woman who wrote in 1970 that “involuntary motherhood is slavery.” That …
by Andrea Plaid I’m not an aberration because I’m a childless, employed, divorced, college-educated Black cisgender woman — regardless of what the …
by Sarah Flint Erdreich I was 13 years old during the anti-choice “Summer of Mercy” in 1991 when anti-choice activists …
by Susie Day Dear Western Civilization – My name is Mary. Not Mary of Had-a-Little-Lamb fame. Holy Mary. Or, if …
by The Editors “Abortion is a matter of the heart,” the late Dr. George Tiller once said. “For until we …
by Barbara Santee I am 74 years old. When I was 18, I had an illegal abortion that nearly killed …
by Mary Lou Greenberg I remember the first time I heard about Medical Students for Choice. I don’t remember the …
by Lori Adelman In 1970, something electrifying filled the air in New York. Feminist organizing was in high gear. Betty …
By Marge Piercy An embryo is precious;a woman is a vessel. A fertilized egg is a person;a woman is indentured …
by Aram A. Schvey What’s chutzpah? Until December 2011, I would have deferred to the classic definition in Leo Rosten’s The …
by Kathryn Joyce These days anti-abortion ingénue Lila Rose needs no introduction. In advertisements for this year’s Values Voter Summit, …
by Carole Joffe What about abortion gives it staying power as the central issue in domestic politics, even in the …
by Susie Cagle Graphic journalist Susie Cagle researched anti-abortion Crisis Pregnancy Centers by visiting several in the Bay Area “pretending …
by Leslie Cagan My mind is racing as I begin to address this quite large topic: the state of progressive …
by Lindsey Hennawi “This Little Light of Mine” is the song that my mother chose for all of us to …
by Carol Downer In the 1970s, I got involved in the women’s self-help movement in California, traveling the countryside to …
by Laura Whitehorn If you saw the film The Weather Underground, you saw about three minutes of me. The film, through …
by Margaret Morganroth Gullette New ageism is the term I use to describe the current American view of aging-past-youth. Whatever …
by Thaler Pekar I remember my first feminist act. It was Spring of 1974, and I was nine years old. …
by Eleanor J. Bader Growing up, 39-year-old activist artist Heather Ault never imagined that people had been trying to control …
by Abby Scher The doctor’s wife was an educated woman, she’d raised two children, and been active in her community …
by Susan J. Douglas Today, we once again have what Betty Friedan famously called “a problem with no name.” Millions …
by Amanda Marcotte Abortion: most of us tend to think the word has a fixed meaning, which is: terminating a …
by Eleanor J. Bader Sarah Palin, on the vice-presidential campaign trail in 2008, raised the profile of a previously obscure …
by Theresa Noll Carol Adams’s The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory is a pivotal feminist text in which Adams …
by Nona Willis Aronowitz This past summer, I found myself in Chicago’s Grant Park amid a sea of zealots. They …
by Loretta J. Ross Sixty-five billboards were quickly erected in predominantly African American neighborhoods in Atlanta on February 5, 2010. …
by Megan Carpentier This summer, Hanna Rosin warned readers of The Atlantic that the apocalypse was nigh — for boys, at least. …
Ex-husband by Penelope Scambly Schott I hadn’t understood my breathuntil that long ago Friday night you tried to choke me, …
by Stephanie Gilmore and Sarah Barr As women – a faculty member and a student – at Dickinson College, a …
by Susan Feiner As a feminist economist I am constantly amazed—though I suppose I should be used to it by …
by Carol Hanisch Consciousness-raising was birthed as a mass-organizing tool for the liberation of women in 1968 when the country …
by Gloria Feldt Whenever I set foot in Brooklyn where Margaret Sanger opened the first American birth control clinic 93 …
by Theresa Braine In mid-December 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned Mexico’s handling of the cases of three …
by Andrea Smith In a society that, in large measure, condones gender violence, the problem cannot be solved by locking …
by Jacqui Patterson The effects of climate change threaten everyone, but they do not threaten all people equally. Women are …
by Suzanne Pharr Recently, I went to the Kentucky Social Forum, and spent time talking with a co-worker and friend …
In our Fall ’09 edition, THE POET’S EYE features Marian Cannon Dornell and Cheryl Clarke;from Poetry Co-Editor Clare Coss. Naomi’s …
by Merle Hoffman There is one place where the definition of gender remains binary – in the womb. When it …
by Eleanor J. Bader Robert Eads was visiting friends in the late 1990s when he woke up in a pool …
by Donna Schaper I am interested in an overall reversal of course when it comes to preparation for sexual intimacy, …
by Margot Mifflin How did it happen? One day I was a twentysomething heaping scorn on Tipper Gore and her …
Poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt and Erin Whitfield Selling Women – By Minnie Bruce PrattOn the cell phone to a …
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“Merle Hoffman has always known that in a democracy, we each have decision-making power over the fate of our own bodies. She is a national hero for us all.” —Gloria Steinem
In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wade and a country divided, Merle Hoffman, a pioneer in the pro-choice movement and women’s healthcare, offers an unapologetic and authoritative take on abortion calling it “the front line and the bottom line of women’s freedom and liberty.”
Merle Hoffman has been at the forefront of the reproductive freedom movement since the 1970s. Three years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion through Roe v. Wade, she helped to establish one of the United States’ first abortion centers in Flushing, Queens, and later went on to found Choices, one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive women’s medical facilities. For the last five decades, Hoffman has been a steadfast warrior and fierce advocate for every woman’s right to choose when and whether or not to be a mother.