I Like ‘Em Big, I Like ‘Em Proud.
By Meg Heery August 4, 2012 Thankfully, it looks like Olympics fans are finally embracing big, and embracing it where ...
By Meg Heery August 4, 2012 Thankfully, it looks like Olympics fans are finally embracing big, and embracing it where ...
By Meg Heery August 3, 2012 Thursday, August 2nd, was a huge day for American women in the prime-time Olympic ...
August 2, 2012 If you watched Olympic fencing this week, did you ever wonder what all that screaming was about ...
By Meg Heery August 1, 2012 To borrow a line from Tina Turner, we really do need another hero. Smiling, ...
July 30, 2012 By Meg Heery London 2012 made good on its hype as the Year of the Woman on ...
July 29, 2012 (In daily postings, On the Issues Magazine looks at the 2012 Summer Olympics through a feminist lens.) ...
July 28, 2012 By Meg Heery (Every day of the 2012 London Olympics, look to this space at On the ...
July 27, 2012 by Carolyn Gage The Internet is abuzz with the posthumous outing of astronaut Sally Ride. Everyone seems ...
By Meg Heery July 16, 2012 When I was a kid, running was something boys did, usually scrambling through backyards ...
by Carolyn Gage June 28, 2012 As a playwright attempting to reclaim the lesbian lives of historic women athletes like ...
by Jennifer Jordan I came to this rather obscure subject of “women high altitude climbers” as any self-respecting journalist should ...
By Peggy Miller Francke May 10, 2012 The multi-talented sports champion Eleonora Sears died four years before Title IX became ...
by Marie Hardin When Title IX became law in 1972, it started a chain of events that have ultimately changed ...
by Martha Burk Title IX has been a part of our body of law for 40 years, and it has ...
by Gabrielle Korn I have a question. Who decided that sports – competitive, complicated, labor-intensive, rules-driven – are fun? I don’t ...
by Laura Pappano As a blogger and reader of women’s sports blogs, I’ve learned that one subject reliably spurs sharp ...
by Molly M. Ginty Gathered in a circle on a rainbow of yoga mats, tucking braids, curls and dreadlocks into ...
by Ariel Dougherty Forty years ago, at the same time that Title IX was passed by the federal government, Sheila Paige and ...
by Lu Bailey This year, my 10 year-old told me that she wanted to try out for the cheerleading squad ...
by Rachel Toor Because I never played sports, because I went with my feminist mother to 1970s rallies and women’s ...
By Charlotte Taft April 3, 2012 As I write this, I’m not sure whether reproductive rights activists are in a ...
by Chané Jones and The Feminist Press An exploration about sports soon reveals that it is about much more than ...
by Lindsay Parks Pieper Renée Clarke towered over all of her competitors in the 1976 La Jolla tennis tournament. Aided ...
By Ann Rose March 28, 2012 Since 1976 when the Hyde Amendment passed, I’ve been hopelessly annoyed with the pro-choice ...
by Jane Schonberger Growing up in the ’70s, I loved watching the Olympics. As an athlete myself, I sat mesmerized ...
by Mauricio Espinoza Jordan leaped to grab that ball as if nothing else in the world mattered, the way good ...
By Janna Frieman March 22, 2012 In January, a woman prematurely gave birth to twins in her cell within 24 ...
by Tim Grainey The United States women’s national soccer team played to a television audience of 40 million in 1999, ...
by The Editors The convergence of two events this summer brings excitement and attention to women in sports — the ...
by Susan J. Bandy As a former athlete and a graduate student in Sports Studies, I embraced feminism in the ...
by Andrew D. Linden To watch his daughter, Angela, play quarterback in 2011, former National League Football quarterback Mark Rypien, ...
By David Burress March 14, 2012 The right-wing anti-abortion movement’s every argument against abortion has a coherent pro-violent subtext. There ...
By Sarah Morison March 8, 2012 In August 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unprecedented visit to the ...