Patient Power – The Reluctant Revolution
by Merle Hoffman When I first opened a clinic for women’s abortion care in New York in 1971, women finally ...
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 ...