(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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