The Next Seven Generations: Reclaiming Healthy Sexuality for Native Youth
by Jessica Yee I am proud to be Native. I am also proud to be a woman. I am proud ...
by Jessica Yee I am proud to be Native. I am also proud to be a woman. I am proud ...
by rebecca s. a. connie and Tara Malik When TOMS Attack is the name of a short video created by ...
by Sharon Collingwood In November of 2008 a conference was held at Ohio State University. Over 50 academics from Europe, ...
By Jen Nedeau Democrats in the Senate got what they wanted this Christmas: a passed health care reform bill. Low-income ...
by Angela Poh Heroines of Jiangyong: Chinese Narrative Ballads in Womens Script, translated by Wilt L. Idema, is the first ...
by Andrea Smith In a society that, in large measure, condones gender violence, the problem cannot be solved by locking ...
by Loretta J. Ross Sustaining a progressive movement based on shared politics requires not only unification on positive values, but ...
by Eesha Pandit Why care about women’s health in health care reform? I think it’s critical for reproductive justice advocates ...
By Clare Coss What is the role of the artist as we strive to understand issues that divide us How ...
by Natalie Bell Women of color increasingly feel empowered and emboldened to defend their rights to make healthy decisions about ...
by Cindy Cooper Editor’s Note: Urgent circumstances call for early publication of this story planned for our Winter 2010 edition ...
by Betsy Hartmann It’s back to the bad old days of the population bomb. That was the title of an ...
by Rinku Sen Something happened in the months leading up to and including the election of Barack Obama as the ...
By Laurie Mazur In “The ‘New’ Population Control Craze: Retro, Racist, Wrong Way to Go” ( in this edition of ...
by Maame-Mensima Horne For years reproductive justice activists have been calling for African American women to break the silence around abortion ...
From the Editors What do postfeminism and postracialism have to do with liberation and freedom? The answer is clear: nothing ...
By Serena Garcia The ascension of Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States in fall 2009 ...
by Josie Lehrer Before a standing room-only house at the debut presentation of the Mens Story Project in August 2008, Kenyatta, a ...
by Ariel Dougherty Exuberance and bravado! Gumption and sweat! Vision and breadth! These are among the many elements that composed ...
by Eleanor J. Bader It is the third week of classes at P.S. 130, The Parkside School in Brooklyn, New ...
by Talia Carner At a mid-October U.N. session commemorating the 15th Anniversary of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in ...
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 ...
by Heather MacGibbon What is Feminist Art This is a question that art historians and critics have pondered in the ...
by Kate Bornstein Gender rights are often reduced to the rights of women and the rights of men. But over ...
by Graciela Sanchez We are the survivors of physical and cultural genocide.All people of color in the U.S.Are survivors of ...
by Nancy Genova The Death of Dream is a play about domestic violence that is slightly different from other artistic pieces ...
In this edition of On the Issues Magazine on race, feminism and a new progressive movement, The Art Perspective features ...
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 Christine E. Hutchins There is very little new under the sun. Misogyny in art, literature and other records dates ...
by Sir Jesse of Decatur Transmen and XX chromosomal men are equally affected by laws designed to chip away at ...
by Barbara Kahn The arts, film, theater, music, literature, comic books and graphic novels, fine arts and craftsinfluence the image ...
by Thea Hillman When I first learned about intersex, it was from a friend of mine who had just completed ...
by Beverly Cooper Neufeld A small cadre of women rallied on the steps of New York’s City Hall on April ...
by Natalie Bell By the early 1970s, nearly 20 years after the U.S. Supreme Court had found segregated schools to ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg I will always remember the first time I realized that women did not have to live ...
By Suzanne Grossman I recently had the pleasure of speaking on a career panel to young women enrolled in Feminist ...
by the Editors It’s generally called “nontraditional” employment women working in jobs that are mostly held by men. While becoming ...
By Georgia Kral Two indie bands with all female members, Mountain Man from Bennington, Vermont and Sleep Over from Austin, ...
By Carol Downer To secure the availability of abortion, we who are “pro-choice” need to take the lessons from the ...
by Jennifer L. Pozner Media literacy is our strongest tool against propaganda and manipulation in today’s media-saturated environment. As someone ...
by Maureen McNeil Anne Frank wrote that when society fails to protect its people, it’s not just the politicians who ...
by Rhea Hirshman When I was growing up in Brooklyn, a significant rite of passage for my friends and me ...
In our Spring ’10 edition, THE POET’S EYE features Margaret Randall, Meena Alexander and Suheir Hammad;from Poetry Co-Editor Clare Coss. ...
by Arlene Goldbard Citizenship. What with the errors and omissions of cartoon democracy and fervid anti-immigrant agitation, the word has ...
by Barbara Becker Two decades ago, an encounter with a now-famous global trailblazer helped point me on a path of ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg Several older women stood on the sidewalk a few feet from the entrance to Choices Women’s ...
by Claire Reed flamboyant, Bella strides,stumps, marches, a lightening rod,raucous, rallying the troops, fierce, intense, prodding hard,under the big hat, ...
by Jaye Austin Williams In a 2007 interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Tony Kushner was asked, “Can theater or film make ...
by Stephanie Gilmore and Sarah Barr As women – a faculty member and a student – at Dickinson College, a ...
by Megan Carpentier When my parents instilled in me the belief that I could do anything a boy could do, ...
by Eleanor Bader When I was growing up, my father had two favorite words, ignoramus and moron. He hurled them ...
by Resa Crane Bizzaro If I ask my students to write about someone they admire, chances are they’ll write about ...
by Maame-Mensima Horne I was raised in a feminist household where I was exposed to feminism and its theory early. ...
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 Elayne Clift Ive always felt ambivalent about Nicolas Kristofs columns in The New York Times, even though they have ...
By Myriam Miedzian The issue of violence touches me in a very personal and profound way. I am a Holocaust ...
In our Spring ’10 edition, On The Issues Magazine contributors look at ways to enhance and augment our understanding of ...
by Fran Luck Political feminism barely exists in corporate mainstream media. Shows like “Oprah” and “Tyra” – boasting female audiences ...
By Carol Downer The women of Iran and Afghanistan used International Womens Day this year to carry forward their struggle ...
by Maureen McNeil Editors Note: Janet Benshoof wrote about the Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi in our Winter 2010 ...
by Merle Hoffman It was a major tactical and long-term strategic error of the Pro-choice movement to not have unleashed ...
by Gloria Feldt Whenever I set foot in Brooklyn where Margaret Sanger opened the first American birth control clinic 93 ...
By Gail Kregel On Christmas day, 2008, Guatemalan Congresswoman Anabella De Leon, called me. A new president had taken office ...
by Barbara Becker When I was in college, I had a small book of questions meant to serve as conversation ...