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 …
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