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by Kate Bornstein Gender rights are often reduced to the rights of women and the rights of men. But over ...
by Kate Bornstein Gender rights are often reduced to the rights of women and the rights of men. But over ...
by Donna Nelson October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This poem “Barrettes, Bandages and Butterflies,” was inspired by my friend who passed away ...
by Nancy Genova The Death of Dream is a play about domestic violence that is slightly different from other artistic pieces ...
by Christine E. Hutchins There is very little new under the sun. Misogyny in art, literature and other records dates ...
by Sir Jesse of Decatur Transmen and XX chromosomal men are equally affected by laws designed to chip away at ...
by Barbara Kahn The arts, film, theater, music, literature, comic books and graphic novels, fine arts and craftsinfluence the image ...
by Angela Bonavoglia On a sizzling summer night, I head to the Outpost Lounge in Brooklyn to Switch N’ Play’s Open Drag ...
by Carolyn Gage The bathroom has been a site of “gender anxiety” historically, as well as a battlefield, and, although ...
by Janis Hashe Two twentysomething women reviewed the movie, Terminator Salvation, in my local Chattanooga paper earlier this summer. “Generally one of ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg In the Winter 1998 issue of On The Issues Magazine, writer Angell Delaney projected a bright ...
By Molly M. Ginty One progressive “line in the sand” is the conviction that all people are entitled to clean ...
by Barbara Winslow Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005) wanted to be know as a catalyst for change. She should ...
by Rev. Donna Schaper Who tells women and girls who we are? Of course it is we who tell us ...
by Meghan Rhoad As a feminist and as an American working on immigration policy, I have a clear line in ...
by Diana Whitten Last June women throughout Quito, Ecuador looked up at the iconic statue of the Virgin Mary at ...
By Judy Gumbo Alpert I am one of the 45 million American women who’s had an abortion. But I wouldn’t ...
By Simon Fisher The need for a youth-focused and culturally appropriate HIV/AIDS educational platform is urgent. Despite growing infection rates, youth-centered prevention ...
By Carol Stuart The St.James Infirmary is one of the first of its kind — an occupational health clinic for ...
By Yifat Susskind Human rights, feminism, literature and science are all aspects of our common human heritage. Women in the ...
By Stephanie Gilmore Sexual violence is a problem on this campus!” “Your silence will not protect you!” “What do we ...
By Loretta J Ross I believe President Obama should show strong leadership in repealing the Hyde Amendment that prohibits public funding for ...
By Galen Sherwin Laurel Simons, (not her real name) who lives in a small town in Western New York, was ...
By Adrien Hilton Almost 40 years ago, the New York radical feminist group Redstockings pledged in its manifesto: “This time we are ...
By Lu Bailey I am saddened by today’s pop-culture version of feminism, and especially by the number of women who ...
Obstetrician Murdered by Terrorist in Amherst, New Yorkby Judith Arcana This poem, written for Barnett Slepianis here dedicated, in memoriamand ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg “Lines in the Sand” can be either personal or political — or most often, both. Both ...
by Cindy Cooper What revolutions do we need? “We still need the feminist revolution,” Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority ...
By Lauren Guy McAlpin A young woman, we’ll call her Amanda, walked into an agency she saw advertised in her ...
by Jessica T. Solomon What if the people responsible for protecting our nation, writing our laws or discovering new medicines ...
by Emily May HollabackNYC started in 2005 the way a lot of good revolutions must begin – as conversations with ...
By Sarah Hackley Instead of a time of hope, pregnancy too often means death for women in developing countries. In ...
by Donna Schaper Attach fair and just policies to the “emergency” economic stimulus bills and you will find a powerful ...
by Myra Kovary We are living in a new era for persons with disabilities. One sign of this occurred in ...