by Carolyn Gage ANNIE OAKLEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR FEMINISTS. The world’s champion sharpshooter, she stalwartly refused to align herself with any of
July 27, 2012 by Carolyn Gage The Internet is abuzz with the posthumous outing of astronaut Sally Ride. Everyone seems to have an opinion: Some
by Carolyn Gage June 28, 2012 As a playwright attempting to reclaim the lesbian lives of historic women athletes like Babe Didrikson Zaharias, I run
By Carolyn Gage November 23, 2011 The emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement would not have been a surprise to one woman activist born
by Carolyn Gage The bathroom has been a site of “gender anxiety” historically, as well as a battlefield, and, although it is tempting to write
by Carolyn Gage 2003: A journalist contacted several writers, including me, about the impending invasion of Iraq: How was the war was affecting my writing? My
Book Review by Carolyn Gage Polyfidelity: “The state of being in ongoing erotic intimacy with more than one woman concurrently while being honest about such
by Carolyn Gage IN A RECENT GAY-AND-LESBIAN THEATER newsletter, there were two notices about Oscar Wilde. One was recruiting petitioners for a campaign to obtain
by Carolyn Gage “I hear a lot of talk about women forgiving men. I don’t believe it. I have experienced almost every form of cruelty
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“Merle Hoffman has always known that in a democracy, we each have decision-making power over the fate of our own bodies. She is a national hero for us all.” —Gloria Steinem
In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wade and a country divided, a pioneer in the pro-choice movement and women’s healthcare offers an unapologetic and authoritative take on abortion—“the front line and the bottom line of women’s freedom and liberty.”
Merle Hoffman has been at the forefront of the reproductive freedom movement since the 1970s. Three years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion through Roe v. Wade, she helped to establish one of the United States’ first abortion centers in Flushing, Queens, and later went on to found Choices, one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive women’s medical facilities. For the last five decades, Hoffman has been a steadfast warrior and fierce advocate for every woman’s right to choose when and whether or not to be a mother.