Three Habits of the Heart and Mind To Spark Cultural Awakening
by Arlene Goldbard Citizenship. What with the errors and omissions of cartoon democracy and fervid anti-immigrant agitation, the word has ...
by Arlene Goldbard Citizenship. What with the errors and omissions of cartoon democracy and fervid anti-immigrant agitation, the word has ...
by Barbara Becker Two decades ago, an encounter with a now-famous global trailblazer helped point me on a path of ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg Several older women stood on the sidewalk a few feet from the entrance to Choices Women’s ...
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by Stephanie Gilmore and Sarah Barr As women – a faculty member and a student – at Dickinson College, a ...
by Megan Carpentier When my parents instilled in me the belief that I could do anything a boy could do, ...
by Eleanor Bader When I was growing up, my father had two favorite words, ignoramus and moron. He hurled them ...
by Resa Crane Bizzaro If I ask my students to write about someone they admire, chances are they’ll write about ...
by Maame-Mensima Horne I was raised in a feminist household where I was exposed to feminism and its theory early. ...
by Susan Feiner As a feminist economist I am constantly amazed—though I suppose I should be used to it by ...
by Carol Hanisch Consciousness-raising was birthed as a mass-organizing tool for the liberation of women in 1968 when the country ...
By Elayne Clift Ive always felt ambivalent about Nicolas Kristofs columns in The New York Times, even though they have ...
By Myriam Miedzian The issue of violence touches me in a very personal and profound way. I am a Holocaust ...
In our Spring ’10 edition, On The Issues Magazine contributors look at ways to enhance and augment our understanding of ...
by Fran Luck Political feminism barely exists in corporate mainstream media. Shows like “Oprah” and “Tyra” – boasting female audiences ...
By Carol Downer The women of Iran and Afghanistan used International Womens Day this year to carry forward their struggle ...
Cynthia L. Cooper When Loretta J. Ross speaks, people listen. Ross is a big-picture thinker on reproductive justice, national coordinator ...
by Gloria Feldt Whenever I set foot in Brooklyn where Margaret Sanger opened the first American birth control clinic 93 ...
By Gail Kregel On Christmas day, 2008, Guatemalan Congresswoman Anabella De Leon, called me. A new president had taken office ...
by Cynthia L Cooper Almost as soon as I entered the German Memorial Resistance Center in Berlin, I regretted having ...
by Barbara Becker When I was in college, I had a small book of questions meant to serve as conversation ...
By Marylou Greenberg Editors Note: In light of the devastating earthquake in Haiti and in tribute to the courage of ...
by Linda Stein How does Wonder Woman do it? She is able to stop the bad guys—even convince them to ...
by Judith Arcana I’ve been thinking about Grace Paley, the late activist and writer, in relation to this theme of ...
by Janet Benshoof Aung San Suu Kyi’s unwavering commitment to a nonviolent path to democracy in Burma, and her decades-long ...
by Theresa Braine In mid-December 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned Mexico’s handling of the cases of three ...
by the Editors When On The Issues Magazine decided to pursue Passion, Freedom, Women and the topic of women fighting for freedom around the ...
On The Issues Magazine provides an Online forum for artists to exhibit their art, including moving images and audio, as ...
Ms. Michael angel Johnson Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, a woman of African descent too often overlooked in arts history, was ...
by Dr. Sakena Yacoobi When I saw the Afghans in refugee camps in Pakistan in 1992, I couldn’t believe what ...
by Merle Hoffman Children are natural resistance fighters. From the time they realize that they have the agency (if not ...
by Resa Crane Bizzaro Over the years, much of my writing has been in response to news articles. Among stories ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg and Eleanor Bader Abortion is one of the safest medical procedures in the country; ironically, those ...
By Cindy Cooper The biggest feminist con ever might be the failure to inscribe equal rights into the United States ...
By Cindy Cooper The count is four to zero. Four times voters have been asked to consider anti-abortion ballot measures ...
by Karen Jones Meadows As a child I learned of Harriet Tubman, icon of the anti-enslavement movement, and the most ...
By Ariel Dougherty Fitting for these times Is The Social Network a movie with social good In the opening sequence ...
By Ann Farmer WATCH THE VIDEO: Yvonne Rainer: Back to the Future A founding member of the avant-garde Judson Dance ...
by Tobe Levin “During training, I would say out loud what others were merely thinking. For example, the day that ...
by Laura Eldridge While feminists in the 1960s and ’70s dreamed that a “male Pill” was close to happening, today ...
by Kathleen Barry I had not planned to write a book on masculinity and war. But following the Israeli invasion ...
by Juhu Thukral When a young creative on this past season of the show Mad Men was fired for posting a sexually ...
by Editors We are delighted and proud to announce that the Newswomen’s Club of New York has awarded Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Merle Hoffman its ...
By Theresa Noll As Gloria Feldt points out in her new book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change the Way ...
by Marcy Bloom Melinda French Gates, philanthropist, co-founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was greeted with ...
By Jodi Magee At Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, we know that abortion is an essential part of comprehensive ...
by Ariel Dougherty The World Cup coverage by ESPN (and ABC) washed over the U.S. this summer like a fever ...
By Lauren Zuniga Every year at the National Poetry Slam poets from all over the country gather to tell their ...
by Angela Bonavoglia If ever there were doubt about the relationship between the Catholic Church’s spectacular failure to address the ...
By Georgia Kral Scan through the pages of a major music magazine, the arts section of The New York Times, Pitchfork.com or ...
by Cindy Cooper Perhaps one of the biggest impediments to women’s equality in the United States is a pervasive, persistent ...
by Marie Shear I am lying on a gurney in a hospital hallway, alone, waiting to be rolled into the ...
by Loretta Ross My mother always asked the question, “Why would I want to be equal to men, when I’ve ...
by Carolyn A. Cook Looking back now, my parents’ divorce was my first awakening to the double standard for women. ...
By Deborah Savadge Remember the Virginia Slims ad campaign from 40 years ago Directed at women, it announced, “You’ve come ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Inside insular religious communities in the U.S. women are quietly, and sometimes covertly, rolling back limitations ...
by Megan Carpentier This summer, Hanna Rosin warned readers of The Atlantic that the apocalypse was nigh — for boys, at least. ...
Car mechanic and mother Audra Fordin dons her work gloves to do a grease job on an automobile in her ...
by Lu Bailey I’ve always been interested in the media’s impact on public policy as well as the media’s role ...
By Helen Gilbert When I heard from Radical Women members who attended this summer’s U.S. Social Forum that some participants ...
by Joan Williams The gender pay gap is standard measure of women’s economic inequality. At the dawn of second-wave feminism, ...
By Rev. Rebecca Turner Growing up in a small Missouri town Southern Baptist church in the 1960s, I recall very ...
The Editors It’s generally called “nontraditional” employment women working in jobs that are mostly held by men. While becoming an ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Inside insular religious communities in the U.S. women are quietly, and sometimes covertly, rolling back limitations ...
By Sonia Pressman Fuentes On August 26, we’ll be celebrating the 90th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment ...
By Rev. Rebecca Turner Since the 1960s, a sex education war has waged in school districts and state legislatures around ...