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by Ann Jordan Between March and June, scores of women in Cambodia were rounded up and held in detention where ...
by Ann Jordan Between March and June, scores of women in Cambodia were rounded up and held in detention where ...
By Penelope Saunders In late 2004 and early 2005, the Mayor of Washington, D.C. proposed several new laws to augment ...
By Nicole Witte Solomon In 2004, Rachel Aimee, Rebecca Lynn and Raven Strega hit upon a radical notion. The media ...
by Carol Leigh Prostitutes are “the only street fighters we’ve got,” wrote radical feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson in her 1974 book, Amazon ...
By Jaye Austin Williams It was a peculiar Christmas the year my Aunt Mickey told me of my unsavory beginnings. ...
By Lakshmi Anantnarayan The great divide in the women’s movement on the subject of prostitution has been well-documented and even ...
By Jane Roberts I look at the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and cringe. I don’t give a damn about ...
By Mahin Hassibi I have come to the conclusion — albeit reluctantly — that selling sex for money or a ...
by Sonia Ossorio I know a woman from South America who spent her first night in the Big Apple in ...
by Shere Hite “I always wanted to have orgasm during intercourse with him — seems like the impossible dream. I ...
by Norma Ramos Home Box Office (HBO) advertises the Cathouse DVD this way: If you’ve got a credit card, it’s all there ...
by Ariel Dougherty Working Girls is a classic film on sex work, which many professors report using in college courses for ...
by Juhu Thukral The idea of sex workers fighting for their human rights is a foreign concept to most people, ...
by Bernadette Barton Every semester I assign my undergraduate students in my gender and sexuality courses a class project on ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg “Silence = Death.” The shout of AIDS activists cut like a knife through public ignorance, denial and ...
by Dr. Ann Boyer When I began working with HIV in the 1980s, women still had a 9 to 30 ...
by Mahin Hassibi Medical specialists in different fields complain about insurance companies or the Medicare rates; otherwise “talking shop” only ...
By Mary Lou Greenberg Gender-blind spots in assessing the HIV/AIDS epidemic today are key factors in today’s deadly ignorance about ...
by Molly M. Ginty A73-year-old grandmother in Kansas City, Kansas. A 16-year-old Bronx girl living in a foster home. A ...
By Cynthia Soohoo and Katrina Anderson More than half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. occur before the ...
By Marjorie Signer The pending reauthorization of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, commonly called PEPFAR, is a ...
By Nicole Itano After 13 years at the head of the UN’s AIDS organization, Dr. Peter Piot is stepping down. His departure ...
By Sharon Walton Idistinctly remember the first time that I heard the word “AIDS.” It was 1985. I was on ...
By Mehret Mandefro Silence is a universal metaphor that explains marginalized human experience. With HIV, the silence that cloaks sexism, ...
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader Nicole Itano’s No Place Left to Bury the Dead zeroes in on three communities in Botswana, Lesotho ...
By Cindy Cooper An invaluable health website has special promise for women with HIV-AIDS, but not enough are using it. ...
by Marcy Bloom What is a woman worth? HIV infections among women and girls have risen in every part of ...
By Lisa Vives While “medical tourism” is filling hospital beds in developing countries with patients priced out of the care ...
By Janine Avril I feel for all women with AIDS, but my heart goes out to women like my mother ...
by Alexis Greene Nikkole Salter grew up in Los Angeles. Danai Gurira was raised in Zimbabwe. In 2001, the two ...
Over the years, HIV-AIDS has been demonized and stigmatized, especially by religious reactionaries. Family “values” conservatives oppose condom use, even ...
By Larry Schulte The AIDS/ART/WORK conference in New York earlier this summer brought together a distinguished group of professionals from ...
By Natalie Bell There is another side to the stories that occasionally break out into the public, such as with ...