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The Cafe at On The Issues Online Magazine is deepening the conversations by continually adding the insights of progressive writers, thinkers and artists on the topics we address.

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  • All
  • 2008 Fall Café
  • 2008 Spring Café
  • 2008 Summer Café
  • 2009 Fall Café
  • 2009 Spring Café
  • 2009 Summer Café
  • 2009 Winter Café
  • 2010 Spring Café
  • 2010 Winter Café
  • 2011 Fall Café
  • 2011 Spring Café
  • 2011 Summer Café
  • 2011 Winter Café
  • 2012 Spring Café
  • 2012 Winter Café
2011 Spring Café

For the Birds: My Personal Eco Activism

by Catherine Gropper May 19, 2011 I still remember when I heard the first story in April 2010 about the …

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2011 Spring Café

Watershed Women: Self Help in India

by Swapna Majumdar May 12, 2011 In an economically distressed region of India, categorized as “severely food insecure,” and prone …

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2011 Spring Café

Strong Families Love Unconditionally

by Susan Lehman May 8, 2011 As the mother of grown children, I have basked in the annual glow of …

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2011 Spring Café

Clean Up: Shareholder Activism Pushes Companies Larissa Ruoff

May 3, 2011 One in six women of childbearing age have elevated levels of mercury in her bloodstream, which, if …

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2011 Spring Café

My Body, The Earth ; The Earth, My Body

by Carolyn Raffensperger March 16, 2011 I struggle to understand the spiritual and ecological nature of being a living being, …

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2011 Spring Café

Women in Tyvek: Hope in Nontraditional Green Jobs

by Alexis Greene April 26, 2011 Every morning the trucks roll out of the garage at Community Environmental Center (CEC), …

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2011 Spring Café

Webs of Connection: Trees, Women, Activism

By Marianne Schnall April 19. 2011 The Vietnamese monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist writer, often talks about the concept …

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2011 Spring Café

Dirty Down There: The Selling of “Feminine” Products

By Lu Bailey April 12, 2011 Several years ago, I attended a workshop about the history of douching. The topic …

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2011 Spring Café

Infrastructure: Fiction Techniques and Shaping Public Health

by Lise Saffran April 5, 2011 To an American college student, there is nothing more invisible than the infrastructure that …

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2011 Spring Café

Poetry: Reliving the Nuclear Nightmare

by Karen Ethelsdattar March 29, 2011 With the now-ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan, I was shaken all over again. After …

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2011 Spring Café

Four Bags: My Mother’s Gift of Living Simply

by Sarah Flint Erdreich March 22, 2011 The best Hanukkah gift I ever gave my mother was four canvas bags. …

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2011 Winter Café

Female Violence in Search of Justice

by Linda Stein March 9, 2011 Remember Lorena Bobbitt? I asked my partner that question and her response was a …

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2011 Winter Café

Feminist, Feminisme, Feministe? Anti-Patriarchy is Key

By Karen Offen March 4, 2011 In her article Feminism Is as Feminism Does, Merle Hoffman invokes the question that many …

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2011 Winter Café

Films that Inform Our Lives: Maybe Next Year?

by Heather Cowherd March 1, 2011 In 1995, at the age of ten, I wanted to be like Princess Aurora, …

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2011 Winter Café

Academic Feminisms: Gaining or Losing Ground?

by Resa Crane Bizzaro February 23, 2011 When I first thought about writing this essay, I was a little afraid …

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2011 Winter Café

Controlling Women: Reasons to Worry About the Scott Sisters

by Caroline Picker February 17, 2011 What would you trade for your freedom? Why should you care about the Scott …

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2011 Winter Café

Disappearing the word “rape”

by Stephanie Gilmore The Super Bowl is over, and although the Pittsburgh Steelers lost a record-setting seventh victory, star quarterback …

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2011 Winter Café

Of Hallie Flanagan and Women Who Won’t Be Silent

by Alexis Greene The American theater director and educator Hallie Flanagan Davis, hero of Ruth Wolff’s play Hallie, grew to womanhood during …

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2011 Winter Café

Feminists Lose Ground Working With Social Conservatives On Trafficking

by Melissa Ditmore Many people are surprised to learn that some contemporary feminists work with Right-wing Christians on the issue …

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2011 Winter Café

Roe v. Wade 38th Anniversary: A Time for Celebration and Commitment

by Merle Hoffman As we celebrate the 38th anniversary on Jan 22nd of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide, this …

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2011 Winter Café

Dangerous Con: How the Right Wing Attracts Women

by Helen Gilbert The emergence of Sarah Palin and other perky-but-tough “mama grizzlies” is well-calculated. The Right wing is searching …

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2011 Winter Café

Love and Creative Genius: A Feminist’s Most Potent Weapons

by Inga Muscio Feminism is an expression of oppressed people, but it has, like everything else in America, been commodified. …

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2011 Winter Café

Stop Murder and Violence Against Sex Workers

by Melissa Sontag Broudo and Rachel Grinstein Within the last month, police discovered four bodies along the Long Island Shore …

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2010 Winter Café

“No Easy Decision”: MTV Takes on Abortion

By Sarah Flint Erdreich Abortion has long been the third rail of American pop culture. Maude may have chosen to …

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2010 Winter Café

Feminist Hyman Rights vs. the Conning of Patriotism

By Kathleen Barry Although more women are joining the military than ever before and some are seeing combat, women’s primary …

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2010 Winter Café

Judging Our Future: Supreme Women Move Up

By Sonia Fuentes In my lifetime, this country has seen dramatic changes with regard to women on the U.S. Supreme …

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2010 Winter Café

Stop the Con and Take ERA All The Way

By Cindy Cooper The biggest feminist con ever might be the failure to inscribe equal rights into the United States …

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2010 Winter Café

Dear Antis: Voters Say No to Your Abortion Bans

By Cindy Cooper The count is four to zero. Four times voters have been asked to consider anti-abortion ballot measures …

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2010 Winter Café

Misogyny Makes Money: Review of “The Social Network”

By Ariel Dougherty Fitting for these times Is The Social Network a movie with social good In the opening sequence …

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2010 Winter Café

Video: An Iconic Dancer On Her

By Ann Farmer WATCH THE VIDEO: Yvonne Rainer: Back to the Future A founding member of the avant-garde Judson Dance …

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2010 Spring Café

Opening New Horizons on Faith-Based Sex Education

By Rev. Rebecca Turner Since the 1960s, a sex education war has waged in school districts and state legislatures around …

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2010 Spring Café

“Earth to Natalie:” One Teacher and Integration in Nashville

by Natalie Bell By the early 1970s, nearly 20 years after the U.S. Supreme Court had found segregated schools to …

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2010 Spring Café

Tips on Making Career Out of Feminist Work

By Suzanne Grossman I recently had the pleasure of speaking on a career panel to young women enrolled in Feminist …

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