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2009 Winter Café

Midwifery Reborn: Politicians Take Note

By Lesley Cohen Healthcare remains a forefront issue for the American public. With a new president who acknowledges the need …

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2009 Winter Café

Who The Revolution Left Behind

by Diana Egozcue I get a lot of questions and statements when I explain that I am campaigning for the …

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2009 Winter Café

Whose Utopia?

by Mahin Hassibi A clear consensus exists among women writers of varied ages, educational backgrounds and life circumstances in the …

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2009 Winter Café

A Do-Over for Reproductive Justice

By Gloria Feldt Lars Larson is a conservative radio talk show host with a following of four million listeners. His …

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2009 Winter Café

New Waves for Abortion Access in European Decision

by Diana Whitten Women on Waves, an organization that uses a ship to help women in countries where abortion is …

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2008 Fall Café

Birthed from Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War; Book Review

by Tom Kerr In a new book anthology, Birthed from Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War (Fulcrum Books 2008), the phenomenon of …

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2008 Fall Café

Killing planeloads of pregnant Nigerian women

by Elisa Slattery Fifty-nine thousand women die every year from pregnancy-related causes in Nigeria, a number second only to that …

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2008 Fall Café

Zambia: Curbing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

by Nada Ali The news of the opening of a hospital-based crisis center in Kabwe, Zambia, to address the complex …

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2008 Fall Café

Reading The Times

by Merle Hoffman It was interesting to open the Sunday New York Times and see that Nicholas Kristof had discovered …

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2008 Fall Café

Filming to Shatter the Stigma

by Jennifer Baumgardner I was finishing a writing and film project breaking through the contemporary silences about abortion experiences when …

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2008 Fall Café

Re-enslaving African American Women

By Loretta Ross I have spoken on many campuses in the wake of the “Genocide Awareness Project,” which displays posters …

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2008 Fall Café

Stopping The Terror, A Day to End Violence Against Prostitutes

By Annie Sprinkle In 2003 Green River Killer Gary Ridgeway confessed to having strangled ninety women to death and having …

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2008 Fall Café

Justice Still Awaits Terror Victims in Algeria

By Malika Zouba Years of terror at the hands of religious fundamentalists have left bruises beyond remedy for women in …

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2008 Fall Café

The Water We Swim In, Rescuing Ourselves

By Ellen Snortland Women are terrorism experts. Females all over the world, in developed and developing countries, deal with the …

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2008 Fall Café

The Dangerous Complacency of Victory

By Merle Hoffman In the midst of my elation, shared with so many others, over the election of Barack Obama …

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2008 Fall Café

The Terror and Error of Sarah Palin

By Kathryn Joyce, Esther Kaplan, Sunsara Taylor, Cindy Cooper As I stood listening to Sarah Palin speak inside a stadium …

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2008 Fall Café

Art and Politics, Interpretation by Women

By Linda Stein In this edition of On The Issues Magazine on What is Terror To Women, the artwork of Martha Rosler is …

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2008 Fall Café

San Francisco Could End Terror, Witch-hunting and Criminalization for Prostitutes with Prop K

by Rachel West On election day many hope for a transformation away from the politics of war, greed and repression. …

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2008 Fall Café

Terror in Our Homes; Violence Against Women in Zimbabwe

By Tawanda Mudzonga Zimbabwe has always been ruled by fear and violence. Our political history reveals government again and again …

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2008 Summer Café

Fighting Prostitution at the Expense of Slavery: The 2007 Federal Law

By Melynda H. Barnhart Feminist debates about sex work, prostitution, and sex trafficking raged long before the debate was enshrined …

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2008 Summer Café

When Revolution in China Elevated Women and Took Prostitution off the Market 

By Mary Lou Greenberg During the recent Beijing Olympics, the Washington Post reported that up to 10 million women in …

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2008 Summer Café

“How you dress shouldn’t be cause for arrest”

By Penelope Saunders In late 2004 and early 2005, the Mayor of Washington, D.C. proposed several new laws to augment …

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2008 Summer Café

Erotic Laborers Find Outlet in $pread

By Nicole Witte Solomon In 2004, Rachel Aimee, Rebecca Lynn and Raven Strega hit upon a radical notion. The media …

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2008 Summer Café

Affinity

By Jaye Austin Williams It was a peculiar Christmas the year my Aunt Mickey told me of my unsavory beginnings. …

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2008 Summer Café

Safeguarding the Rights of Prostituted Women On the Frontlines of a Global Grassroots Movement

By Lakshmi Anantnarayan The great divide in the women’s movement on the subject of prostitution has been well-documented and even …

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2008 Summer Café

Putting Together Pieces Of Sex Work, Gender Inequality, Deadly Consequences

By Jane Roberts I look at the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and cringe. I don’t give a damn about …

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2008 Summer Café

Let’s Change the Equation on Sex and Earning

By Mahin Hassibi I have come to the conclusion — albeit reluctantly — that selling sex for money or a …

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2008 Summer Café

Poetry: Broken Box

By Christine Stark I can’t write nothingBeautiful. I am expected to be that way because I am a girl writer …

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2008 Spring Café

Having Children When You Have HIV – Still a Problem?

by Dr. Ann Boyer When I began working with HIV in the 1980s, women still had a 9 to 30 …

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2008 Spring Café

Talking Shop in the Medical Field: The Unfolding of A Strange New Disease

by Mahin Hassibi Medical specialists in different fields complain about insurance companies or the Medicare rates; otherwise “talking shop” only …

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2008 Spring Café

Media Missteps + Misogyny = Death for Women

By Mary Lou Greenberg Gender-blind spots in assessing the HIV/AIDS epidemic today are key factors in today’s deadly ignorance about …

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2008 Spring Café

High Rates of HIV and STIs Show the U.S. Is Flouting Teens’ Human Rights

By Cynthia Soohoo and Katrina Anderson More than half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. occur before the …

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2008 Spring Café

Global Gag Rule Poses Moral Challenge for U.S. HIV/AIDS Funding

By Marjorie Signer The pending reauthorization of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, commonly called PEPFAR, is a …

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