By Mary Lou Greenberg During the recent Beijing Olympics, the Washington Post reported that up to 10 million women in …
by Angela Bonavoglia In the wake of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s stunning fall from grace in March 2008 for …
by Alexis Greene “You will not fight your battles on my body anymore.” Thus speaks the character of the Congolese …
by Ann Jordan Between March and June, scores of women in Cambodia were rounded up and held in detention where …
By Penelope Saunders In late 2004 and early 2005, the Mayor of Washington, D.C. proposed several new laws to augment …
By Nicole Witte Solomon In 2004, Rachel Aimee, Rebecca Lynn and Raven Strega hit upon a radical notion. The media …
by Mary Lou Greenberg Women and sex — for pleasure, for money, as an oppression, as a profession — is …
by Carol Leigh Prostitutes are “the only street fighters we’ve got,” wrote radical feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson in her 1974 book, Amazon …
By Jaye Austin Williams It was a peculiar Christmas the year my Aunt Mickey told me of my unsavory beginnings. …
Poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt and Erin Whitfield Selling Women – By Minnie Bruce PrattOn the cell phone to a …
By Lakshmi Anantnarayan The great divide in the women’s movement on the subject of prostitution has been well-documented and even …
By Jane Roberts I look at the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and cringe. I don’t give a damn about …
By Mahin Hassibi I have come to the conclusion — albeit reluctantly — that selling sex for money or a …
by Sonia Ossorio I know a woman from South America who spent her first night in the Big Apple in …
by Shere Hite “I always wanted to have orgasm during intercourse with him — seems like the impossible dream. I …
by Norma Ramos Home Box Office (HBO) advertises the Cathouse DVD this way: If you’ve got a credit card, it’s all there …
by Ariel Dougherty Working Girls is a classic film on sex work, which many professors report using in college courses for …
by Juhu Thukral The idea of sex workers fighting for their human rights is a foreign concept to most people, …
by Bernadette Barton Every semester I assign my undergraduate students in my gender and sexuality courses a class project on …
by Mary Lou Greenberg “Silence = Death.” The shout of AIDS activists cut like a knife through public ignorance, denial and …
by Dr. Ann Boyer When I began working with HIV in the 1980s, women still had a 9 to 30 …
by Mahin Hassibi Medical specialists in different fields complain about insurance companies or the Medicare rates; otherwise “talking shop” only …
By Mary Lou Greenberg Gender-blind spots in assessing the HIV/AIDS epidemic today are key factors in today’s deadly ignorance about …
by Molly M. Ginty A73-year-old grandmother in Kansas City, Kansas. A 16-year-old Bronx girl living in a foster home. A …
by Merle Hoffman Welcome to the May/June 2008 edition of On The Issues Magazine Online, the first full edition of our new Internet …
By The Editors Over the years, HIV-AIDS has been demonized and stigmatized, especially by religious reactionaries. Family “values” conservatives oppose …
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader Nicole Itano’s No Place Left to Bury the Dead zeroes in on three communities in …
OTI Online provides a new forum for artists to present contemporary art in relation to the topic for that issue. …
By Cynthia Soohoo and Katrina Anderson More than half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. occur before the …
By Marjorie Signer The pending reauthorization of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, commonly called PEPFAR, is a …
By Nicole Itano After 13 years at the head of the UN’s AIDS organization, Dr. Peter Piot is stepping down. His departure …
By Sharon Walton Idistinctly remember the first time that I heard the word “AIDS.” It was 1985. I was on …
By Mehret Mandefro Silence is a universal metaphor that explains marginalized human experience. With HIV, the silence that cloaks sexism, …
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 Rhonda Copelon When one compares what is done to a woman in an advanced domestic battering cycle and to prisoners …
by Diana Whitten Women on Waves, an organization that uses a ship to help women in countries where abortion is …
by Barbara J. Gislason The Revolution Occurs Within: Manifesto of an Animal Lawyerby Barbara J. Gislason Admitting to ourselves that we …
by Susan Yanow At a conference on women’s health care needs in fall 2008, a woman whom Ill identify as Marcia …
by Leslie Kanes Weisman Women’s actions through the years demonstrate that they understand how the appropriation of space is a political …
by Marion Banzhaf What can feminists expect, or demand, from foundations in the coming years? Foundations lost approximately 30 percent of …
by Merle Hoffman It was interesting to open the Sunday New York Times and see that Nicholas Kristof had discovered …
by Jennifer Baumgardner I was finishing a writing and film project breaking through the contemporary silences about abortion experiences when …
by Susan Faludi Back in 1986, when the media was busy scaring unwed career women with tales of a looming …
by Ariel Dougherty A quote from UNICEF fills the screen of the 2002 film, Women, The Forgotten Face of War: “A few …
By Loretta Ross I have spoken on many campuses in the wake of the “Genocide Awareness Project,” which displays posters …
By Sally Roesch Wagner What Is Terror To Women? by Susan Faludi Back in 1986, when the media was busy scaring …
by Mary Lou Greenberg Much of women’s lives has to do with terror – living with it, facing it, and …
By Annie Sprinkle In 2003 Green River Killer Gary Ridgeway confessed to having strangled ninety women to death and having …
by Cathy Albisa When gender and poverty intersect, the failure to protect economic and social rights gives rise to the …
by Carol J. Adams Several years ago, for one week’s time, I was a circuit rider working against domestic violence. …
By Malika Zouba Years of terror at the hands of religious fundamentalists have left bruises beyond remedy for women in …
By Ellen Snortland Women are terrorism experts. Females all over the world, in developed and developing countries, deal with the …
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