by Merle Hoffman When I first opened a clinic for women’s abortion care in New York in 1971, women finally …
Speaking out, raising banners, uploading ideas – new & old activists are stepping up. On The Issues Magazine Fall 2011 …
by Stephanie Gilmore In Cuernavaca, Mexico and Tegucigalpa, Honduras, it was called Marcha de las Putas. In New Delhi, it was Besharmi …
by Laura Whitehorn If you saw the film The Weather Underground, you saw about three minutes of me. The film, through …
By Sarah Byrnes October 20, 2011 Here in the U.S., our economic system is just not working for most Americans. …
By Rosalyn Baxandall October 14, 2011 At last the 99 percent are shaming them: “This is not a Recession; It’s …
by Elizabeth Koke and Glynnis King Activists, their stirring written passion and accounts, are also on our bookshelves. The Feminist Press surveyed …
by Juhu Thukral As social justice advocates, we are often searching for ways to connect and strengthen our movements, and …
by Margaret Morganroth Gullette New ageism is the term I use to describe the current American view of aging-past-youth. Whatever …
by Thaler Pekar I remember my first feminist act. It was Spring of 1974, and I was nine years old. …
by Elizabeth Black When I was in college, I was slut-shamed. On the one hand, I was encouraged to save …
by editors With this past year’s spontaneous eruptions of social action across the world from Occupy Wall Street to SlutWalk …
by Eleanor J. Bader Growing up, 39-year-old activist artist Heather Ault never imagined that people had been trying to control …
by Michael angel Johnson Now I would recognize the warning signs, but then, I was only ten. When I cried …
The Art Perspective provides a visual and audio forum for artists to exhibit their art and present exciting responses to …
By Linda Stein September 15, 2011 Conservative Republicans flexed considerable muscle earlier this year and threw a knockout punch against …
By Keely Swan September 8, 2011 The Center for Women’s Global Leadership’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international …
By Madeline Lee Bryer September 1, 2011 The war against domestic violence is heating up. In a decision released publicly …
by Yifat Susskind Rosemary Gonzalez was murdered in 2009, the victim of a war that ended in 1996. One day, …
August 24, 2011 You can’t build peace leaving half of the people out. Women are a prime target in conflict, …
by Shelagh Daley August 24, 2011 You can’t build peace leaving half of the people out. Women are a prime …
by Cora Weiss In my years of peace and gender activism, I developed a stock of one-liners about the role …
by Debra Sweet Ten years ago, when the Taliban had mostly wrested control of Afghanistan from former fundamentalist warlord allies …
By Gabrielle Korn August 11, 2011 On September 20, 2011, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — the law barring gays and …
The war in Afghanistan is not the first U.S. war in which the ill-treatment of women was used to stoke …
by Merle Hoffman All wars are intimate. For women whose bodies have become battlegrounds in the struggle for reproductive freedom, …
By Helen Benedict August 3, 2011 In 2006, when I discovered that more women were serving and fighting in the …
By Autumn Sandeen July 28, 2011 The Veterans Administration released a new directive on transgender veterans in June 2011, “Providing …
by Pam McAllister How guilty I felt almost 30 years ago, when I was just 31 and sisterhood was powerful. …
As the U.S. approaches a decade of war, what are feminist writers and artists thinking? On The Issues Magazine Summer …
by Eleanor J. Bader The setting changes but the scene does not: Men and women in crisply pressed uniforms enter …
by Dr. Terry Neese July 21, 2011 Rwandan women now boast the highest percentage of women in government of any …
by Kathleen Barry Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich will be in military court this summer of 2011 for a massacre that …
By Manis Rayles January 18, 2012 I am a believer. If I had to name my religion, it would be …
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 The Editors NEW YORK — To mark four decades of women exercising the right to have an abortion and …
by Merle Hoffman When I first opened a clinic for women’s abortion care in Flushing, New York in 1971, women …
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 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 Phyllis Chesler I began my first book, Women and Madness (1972), with a quote from Doris Lessing’s The Four-Gated …
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 Barbara Santee Note by the author: I wrote this article in 1992, but believe it is as relevant today …
by Carol Downer In the 1970s, I got involved in the women’s self-help movement in California, traveling the countryside to …
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