Our Genders, Our Rights
From the Editors This edition of On The Issues Magazine – Our Genders, Our Rights – discusses a topic that ...
From the Editors This edition of On The Issues Magazine – Our Genders, Our Rights – discusses a topic that ...
Edited by Linda SteinArt by Judith K. Brodsky On The Issues Magazine provides an Online forum for artists to exhibit ...
by Merle Hoffman In our Spring ’09 edition, On The Issues Magazine writers and artists discuss feminist and progressive values ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Our Bodies, Ourselves started with a small group of strangers talking to one another at a ...
by Jennifer S. Macleod Many established institutions and forces in our country are still fighting desperately against the Equal Rights ...
by Rebecca Chalker The Ancient Greek aphorism, “Know yourself,” was inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Whatever this ...
by Donna Schaper I am interested in an overall reversal of course when it comes to preparation for sexual intimacy, ...
By Lauren Guy McAlpin A young woman, we’ll call her Amanda, walked into an agency she saw advertised in her ...
by Pam Chamberlain When I was in college, a group of radical women dressed as witches ran around major U.S. ...
By Irasema Garza In the struggle for gender equality, the legal victories have been historic. Women’s employment and educational rights ...
by Jessica T. Solomon What if the people responsible for protecting our nation, writing our laws or discovering new medicines ...
by Lois Uttley Twelve years ago, Jane Van de Bogart took a stand: Kingston Hospital in rural Ulster County, NY, ...
by Emily May HollabackNYC started in 2005 the way a lot of good revolutions must begin – as conversations with ...
by Gloria Feldt Were you thinking we were done with elections and could take a few minutes to celebrate a ...
By Sarah Hackley Instead of a time of hope, pregnancy too often means death for women in developing countries. In ...
by Loretta J. Ross I’m not a policy wonk. I am very ill suited to talk frequently to legislators to ...
by Donna Schaper Attach fair and just policies to the “emergency” economic stimulus bills and you will find a powerful ...
Submitted to and Rejected by: The Los Angeles Times By Carol Downer International Women’s Day on March 8 has special ...
by Myra Kovary We are living in a new era for persons with disabilities. One sign of this occurred in ...
by Margot Mifflin How did it happen? One day I was a twentysomething heaping scorn on Tipper Gore and her ...
By Lesley Cohen Healthcare remains a forefront issue for the American public. With a new president who acknowledges the need ...
by Janet Benshoof American women need legal tools to fight patriarchy. Women outside of the U.S. are pushing for and getting ...
by Diana Egozcue I get a lot of questions and statements when I explain that I am campaigning for the ...
By Mahin Hassibi For the past century and a half, every new discovery of biology has left intact, and even ...
by Mahin Hassibi A clear consensus exists among women writers of varied ages, educational backgrounds and life circumstances in the ...
by Merle Hoffman We asked leading thinkers to describe New Revolutions We Need for a feminist and progressive future. Here’s one response. Oscar ...
by Alexis Greene Over the years, Bill Baird, the reproductive rights activist, has been threatened, arrested and jailed. He’s been called ...
By Gloria Feldt Lars Larson is a conservative radio talk show host with a following of four million listeners. His ...
by MaryLou Greenberg The print editions of On the Issues Magazine (1983-1999) carried many articles, editorials and interviews with vision and hopeful projections ...
by Eleanor J. Bader We asked leading thinkers to describe New Revolutions We Need for a feminist and progressive future. ...
On The Issues Magazine provides an Online forum for artists to exhibit their art, including moving images and audio, as ...
by Susan Jacoby We asked leading thinkers to describe New Revolutions We Need for a feminist and progressive future. Here’s ...
Poems by Diane Lockward, Lois Rosen, Marge Piercy and Annie FinchFrom Poetry Co-Editor Judith Arcana The Missing Wife – By ...
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 ...
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 Merle Hoffman There is one place where the definition of gender remains binary – in the womb. When it ...
by Angela Bonavoglia On a sizzling summer night, I head to the Outpost Lounge in Brooklyn to Switch N’ Play’s Open Drag ...
by Carolyn Gage The bathroom has been a site of “gender anxiety” historically, as well as a battlefield, and, although ...
by Joel VigGender in the theatre has always been open to change. From Shakespeare’s plays, where women’s roles were performed ...
by Janis Hashe Two twentysomething women reviewed the movie, Terminator Salvation, in my local Chattanooga paper earlier this summer. “Generally one of ...
Compiled by Mary Lou Greenberg Strict and immutable gender roles are the cornerstone of right wing theology and politics and ...
by Helen Boyd It’s been a surprise to find out what a sexist I really am. I’ve been calling myself ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg In the Winter 1998 issue of On The Issues Magazine, writer Angell Delaney projected a bright ...
by Merle Hoffman Growing up in Philadelphia in the 50s, girls were labeled sluts if they dressed provocatively, let boys ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Robert Eads was visiting friends in the late 1990s when he woke up in a pool ...
By Molly M. Ginty One progressive “line in the sand” is the conviction that all people are entitled to clean ...
By The Editors The question of gender has been an ongoing theme in On the Issues Magazine – Gender roles, ...
In our Summer ’09 edition, THE POET’S EYE features Julie Enszer, Judith Barrington and Toi Derricotte;from Poetry Co-Editor Judith Arcana. ...
In this exhibition of On the Issues Magazine on gender and the fluidity of sexuality, the OTI Art Perspective features ...
by Rev. Donna Schaper Who tells women and girls who we are? Of course it is we who tell us ...
by Meghan Rhoad As a feminist and as an American working on immigration policy, I have a clear line in ...
by Georgia Kral Longtime gamer Michael Duff sits at his computer regularly to play “World of Warcraft,” the most popular online ...
by Mahin Hassibi The feminist movement began to raise questions about the cultural root of male supremacy. The simplified male-female ...
by Diana Whitten Last June women throughout Quito, Ecuador looked up at the iconic statue of the Virgin Mary at ...
By Judy Gumbo Alpert I am one of the 45 million American women who’s had an abortion. But I wouldn’t ...
by Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer Had I not escaped one night five years ago with my eight children from ...