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By Janine Avril I feel for all women with AIDS, but my heart goes out to women like my mother …
by Alexis Greene Nikkole Salter grew up in Los Angeles. Danai Gurira was raised in Zimbabwe. In 2001, the two …
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By Mina Assidi Singer Gissoo Shakeri and poet Mina Assidi, both of whose works are banned in the Islamic Republic …
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by Phyllis Chesler When in doubt or trouble, but also in times of joy, I always return to the sea: …
by Marilyn Stasio When Sarah Bernhardt played Hamlet in 1899, two French critics disagreed so violently about her performance that …
by Phyllis Chesler Here I sit, head bent, writing you an intimate letter. I sense your presence, even though I …
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by Merle Hoffman Americans are a nation of people who feel supremely entitled to happiness. After all, in the first …
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by Phyllis Chesler It is time, and Second Wave* feminists are beginning to document their salad days. In the late …
by Carolyn Gage “I hear a lot of talk about women forgiving men. I don’t believe it. I have experienced …
by Martha Shelley “MY SISTER ENDED HER LIFE AS AN ACT OF PROTEST against the way the Islamic Republic is treating …
by Merle Hoffman The Congressman arrived flushed with triumph. He had just been part of the victorious vote on the …
by Phyllis Chesler These are the times that try feminist souls. “Femininity” is back – even among feminists – and …
For the first time in U.S. history, a woman stands accused of being a serial killer – of having killed …
by bell hooks Just as it was once fashionable among “cool” feminists to love Madonna, it is now permissible to …
by Phyllis Chesler Many studies have shown that at least 90 percent of all violent crime and 99 percent of …
by Christine Keyser The spirit of Mother Jones lives on today in the backwoods of Northern California. The North Coast’s …
by Merle Hoffman It is the two outlaw women giving the ultimate “fuck you” to the patriarchy I never really …
by Merle Hoffman learned about paddings accidentally many years ago. It was in a time before my consciousness was raised. …
by Mahin Hassibi, M.D. My name is Michael Ross. I’m a condemned man on Connecticut’s death row,” began the unsolicited …
by Merle Hoffman I am overhearing a phone conversation – the tone of the speaker is intimate – concerned – …
By Merle Hoffman In the midst of my elation, shared with so many others, over the election of Barack Obama …
by Jana Leo From the author:This book is primarily the narration of my individual reflection on an event. It is …
by Carolyn Gage 2003: A journalist contacted several writers, including me, about the impending invasion of Iraq: How was the war …
by Mahin Hassibi Long before the French revolutionaries legitimized terror and terrorizing as an instrument of subjugation, men had discovered …
By Kathryn Joyce, Esther Kaplan, Sunsara Taylor, Cindy Cooper As I stood listening to Sarah Palin speak inside a stadium …
By Linda Stein In this edition of On The Issues Magazine on What is Terror To Women, the artwork of Martha Rosler is …
by Jan Goodwin It’s impossible to imagine the sheer terror that five Pakistani women went through at the end of …
by Eleanor J. Bader To the anti-abortion movement, standing outside clinic doors and bellowing at patients and staff that they …
by Edna Adan Ismail A very distraught old woman came to Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland, appealing to …
by Melissa Nalani Ross In my work on civil and human rights, especially with immigrant populations, I was contacted recently …
by Rachel West On election day many hope for a transformation away from the politics of war, greed and repression. …
by Sallie Bingham The statistics about violence against women in the United States have a deadly sameness that can numb …
By Tawanda Mudzonga Zimbabwe has always been ruled by fear and violence. Our political history reveals government again and again …
by Merle Hoffman I have been on the psychological defensive since Sarah Palin was chosen as the Republican Vice Presidential …
By Ariel Dougherty On election day many hope for a transformation away from the politics of war, greed and repression. …
by Alexis Greene Recently, while walking on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where I live, I saw a woman …
OTI Online provides a forum for artists to exhibit their art, including moving images and audio, as well as stills. …
By Melynda H. Barnhart Feminist debates about sex work, prostitution, and sex trafficking raged long before the debate was enshrined …
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. …
By Linda Stein OTI Online provides a forum for artists to exhibit their art, including moving images and audio, as …
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By Jane Roberts I look at the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and cringe. I don’t give a damn about …
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By Christine Stark I can’t write nothingBeautiful. I am expected to be that way because I am a girl writer …
by Sonia Ossorio I know a woman from South America who spent her first night in the Big Apple in …
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