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By Cindy Cooper An invaluable health website has special promise for women with HIV-AIDS, but not enough are using it. ...
By Cindy Cooper An invaluable health website has special promise for women with HIV-AIDS, but not enough are using it. ...
by Marcy Bloom What is a woman worth? HIV infections among women and girls have risen in every part of ...
By Lisa Vives While “medical tourism” is filling hospital beds in developing countries with patients priced out of the care ...
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 ...
By Larry Schulte The AIDS/ART/WORK conference in New York earlier this summer brought together a distinguished group of professionals from ...
By Natalie Bell There is another side to the stories that occasionally break out into the public, such as with ...
By Mina Assidi Singer Gissoo Shakeri and poet Mina Assidi, both of whose works are banned in the Islamic Republic ...
Poems by Gale Jackson Conversations with love: 25 and her sister’s dead. it’s a full moon and who would know ...
Twenty-five years ago I began On the Issues as a newsletter of Choices Women’s Medical Center in an effort to ...
By MaryLou Greenberg Iranian women are today in the forefront of determined resistance to the oppressive theocracy of the Islamic ...
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 ...
by Phyllis Chesler “Do you have elephants in America?” my Afghan mother-in-law asked me in Kabul, in 1961. Beebee Jan, ...
by Merle Hoffman Americans are a nation of people who feel supremely entitled to happiness. After all, in the first ...
by Kathleen Barry Across nation-states, pimping, “living off the earnings of a prostitute,” is illegal. But pro-prostitution movements in the ...
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 ...
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 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 ...