Intimate Wars: Sex is Intimate, So is Pregnancy
By K Salis January 18, 2012 War can be an intimate experience, often in a deeply personal way, even though ...
By K Salis January 18, 2012 War can be an intimate experience, often in a deeply personal way, even though ...
By Merle Hoffman January 17, 2012 It’s been over 40 years since I founded Choices Women’s Medical Center, one of the ...
By Abigail Collazo January 17, 2012 What does war look like Taste like Smell like Images and soundtracks come to ...
By Sarah Flint Erdreich January 17, 2012 It had been a lovely wedding, and now the reception was packed. We ...
by Tanya Melich Republican women have become a not-so-subtle weapon for breaking apart the Democratic coalition, grounded in the women’s ...
by Kathryn Joyce These days anti-abortion ingénue Lila Rose needs no introduction. In advertisements for this year’s Values Voter Summit, ...
By Gabrielle Korn January 12, 2012 Maayan Melamed, a first-year medical student at The Medical School for International Health at ...
by Merle Hoffman When I first opened a clinic for women’s abortion care in Flushing, New York in 1971, women ...
by Carole Joffe What about abortion gives it staying power as the central issue in domestic politics, even in the ...
by Alexis Greene Words of Choice first emerged as a theatrical performance in the late 1990s when Cindy Cooper, its creator, ...
by Tobe Levin January 5, 2012 That African kid with a sand belly, as the author and activist Khady calls ...
by Gloria Feldt The day before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was expected to rule, rumors circulated that the ...
by Dulcey Lewis December 23, 2011 “We want revenge and we want it now! Lesbians! Dykes! Gay Women!” The six ...
by Ida Hammer December 14, 2011 Trans women are disproportionately impacted by murder and violence, and yet there is a ...
by Sarah Elspeth Patterson December 8, 2011 Sexuality education is, in many ways, an esteem-building practice. Knowledge of any kind, ...
by Alison Yager December 1, 2011 In August 2011, New York City announced that all public middle and high schools ...
by Anne Galisky My first feature-length documentary film, “Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth,” was produced by a scrappy crew, undocumented ...
By Carolyn Gage November 23, 2011 The emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement would not have been a surprise ...
by Gabrielle Korn “What does activism mean to you?” Jennifer Baumgardner: For me, activism is putting into action my feminist ...
by Leslie Cagan My mind is racing as I begin to address this quite large topic: the state of progressive ...
Student Think Tank is a new feature of On The Issues Magazine to host and include the writings of students on feminist and ...
by Sunsara Taylor People generally think of activism as something you do. But activism aimed at changing how people think is equally important. ...
by Lindsey Hennawi “This Little Light of Mine” is the song that my mother chose for all of us to ...
by Kathleen Barry November 16, 2011 Here we go again! Last week Mother Jones published an article, “Herman Cain’s Sexual Harassment Scandal ...
by Amanda Marcotte My fondest wish for 2012 is that it becomes the year where we, as a society, stop ...
by Crystal DeBoise November 10, 2011 Last winter, “Sheila,”a sex worker in her early 20s, had just finished her counseling ...
By Cindy Cooper November 3, 2011 “I think there may be a new page that we’ve come to the United ...
by Ileana Jiménez During a recent Twitter chat on #sheparty hosted by the Women’s Media Center, I tweeted: “How many feminists ...
October 29, 2011 In Mississippi, we are witnessing the intersection of race and gender politics in two ballot initiatives on ...
By Gabrielle Korn October 28, 2011 Uncovering the roots of global sex trafficking and protecting its victims are driving forces ...
by Carol Downer In the 1970s, I got involved in the women’s self-help movement in California, traveling the countryside to ...
By Mary Lou Greenberg October 7, 2011 Karen Duda signed petitions, went to rallies and participated in traditional pro-choice activism. ...
by Sarah Browning Like many white, middle-class poets coming of age in the early-to-mid-1980s, I was told by my poetry ...
By Erika M. Staub RN, PHN and Jacqui R. Quetal RN, FNP February 28, 2012 Nurses are trusted professionals, and ...
by Margie Kelly Abortion opponents long ago slapped their brand on the fetus, parading giant graphic images of fetuses in ...
by Ria Sen and The Feminist Press The passionate writers who record stories of abortion — personal memories, histories, theory ...
by Jasmine Burnett The Black feminist group, the Combahee River Collective, described its beginnings by saying: “It was our experience and disillusionment ...
by Priscilla Smith While watching the totally hip video of the Orthodox Reggae beat rapper Matisyahu’s song Miracle, I began to ...
By Judith Arcana February 16, 2012 Im a Jane. Another Jane said when she heard me use the past tense ...
by The Editors Only a few more days to register for a course on “Writing on the Body.” Registration closes ...
by Jeannie Ludlow “You know, illegal abortions aren’t all bad.” A few years ago, I found myself saying this to ...
by Justine Goodman I am the daughter of a woman who wrote in 1970 that “involuntary motherhood is slavery.” That ...
by The Editors Merle Hoffman, President and CEO of Choices Women’s Medical Center and the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of On the ...
by Faith Pennick The debate over reproductive choice continues to burn, even with a pro-choice president currently in the White ...
by Andrea Plaid I’m not an aberration because I’m a childless, employed, divorced, college-educated Black cisgender woman — regardless of what the ...
by Sarah Flint Erdreich I was 13 years old during the anti-choice “Summer of Mercy” in 1991 when anti-choice activists ...
by Susie Day Dear Western Civilization – My name is Mary. Not Mary of Had-a-Little-Lamb fame. Holy Mary. Or, if ...
By Sara Benincasa February 9, 2012 I’m a comedian, not a scientist or another type of professional smart person, so ...
by Eleanor J. Bader When retired clinic owner Patricia Baird-Windle contacted me in 1998 and invited me to collaborate with ...
by The Editors “Abortion is a matter of the heart,” the late Dr. George Tiller once said. “For until we ...
by Barbara Santee I am 74 years old. When I was 18, I had an illegal abortion that nearly killed ...
By Rev. Debra W. Haffner February 2, 2012 I have been an advocate for safe and legal abortion for more ...
by Elayne Clift City of Soldiers: A Year of Life, Death, and Survival in Afghanistan Author: Kate Fearon Interlink Books, ...
by The Editors A new study puts another face on women’s reproductive decision-making during an economic downturn. It indicates that ...
by Jennifer Baumgardner In 2004, frustrated by the gridlock around abortion, I embarked on an awareness campaign to put a ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg I remember the first time I heard about Medical Students for Choice. I don’t remember the ...
by Lori Adelman In 1970, something electrifying filled the air in New York. Feminist organizing was in high gear. Betty ...
By Linda Weber January 26, 2012 Imagine the whole universe — the vast expanse of reality in which all things ...
The Art Perspective provides a visual and audio forum for artists to exhibit their art and present exciting responses to ...
by Aram A. Schvey What’s chutzpah? Until December 2011, I would have deferred to the classic definition in Leo Rosten’s The ...
by Ayesha Chatterjee and Judy Norsigian As current staff members at Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), an organization that has advanced ...
By Gabrielle Korn January 20, 2012 It’s no secret that the United States is in the midst of a War ...
by Carol Mason A new anti-abortion DVD is being distributed on America’s campuses. It is called 180 to suggest that society has ...
by Corinne A. Carey Our nation’s health care system is in a period of rapid and dramatic change, and the ...
by Carol Downer If working in the abortion movement for over 40 years qualifies me to gaze into my crystal ...
By Sunsara Taylor January 18, 2012 The first time I stood up for abortion rights was back in 1994 in ...