by Jill Benderly PRAGUE — I’m in the waiting room of Czechoslovakia’s Royal Palace, a lavender Baroque edifice perched above …
by Shannon Moon Leonetti I don’t spend as much time in the restaurant actually serving and cooking like I used …
by Eleanor Bader One word comes to mind after a few minutes in the company of Jane Lazarre: Intense. She …
by Merle Hoffman Ihave this fantasy. It’s a variation on that wonderful scene in the movie “Network,” when the eccentric, …
by Elayne Clift FOOD IRRADIATION [SHOULD BE SEEN FOR WHAT IT] IS, AN UNSCRUPULOUS ATTEMPT TO FIND A COMMERCIAL USE …
by Irene Davall Jill was four months pregnant when she and Alex arrived in The Bahamas for a winter vacation. …
by Fred Pelka “For generations our institutions, and our parents, have warned us and shamed us away from our wildness …
As told by Leslie Webster and written by Ginna D. Rose I first heard about the women’s Peace Camp at …
by Christine Keyser The spirit of Mother Jones lives on today in the backwoods of Northern California. The North Coast’s …
by Marjorie Cramer, M.D. I sat on the Amtrak train taking me from New York City to Philadelphia. Every movement …
by Patricia Golan The only time in 15 years of marriage my husband ever hit me was the first time …
by Jill Benderly Q: Why is a bikini like a doughnut? A: Because they’re both new contraceptives about to come on the …
by M. Robbyn Swan Barbara, 42, is lying in the middle of the living room floor in a pool of …
by Merle Hoffman rowing up in Philadelphia in the 1950s was a special kind of wasteland. a time when one’s …
by Eleanor J. Bader Writer Suzanne Gordon is a woman with a mission. Fiery though soft-spoken, angry yet pleasant, she …
by Diana Russell Mass killings were considered gender-neutral before Lepine’s frenzied shooting of “fucking feminists” This is one person’s account …
by Fred Pelka Five months after Mark Stanton Curtis was arrested in Des Moines on charges of sexual abuse and …
by Eleanor J. Bader Anything you can do to protect the future has to deal with population and its continued …
by Phyllis Chesler SWEDEN: October 1,1990. The flight is uneventful — except that somewhere over the Atlantic I turn 50.1 …
The first time I heard it was in Detroit in 1982. The words shot out at me like bullets, creating …
by Susan Cahn How could there be anti-Semitism when there were so few Jews? There are not many Jews left …
by E.M. Broner I dog-sit on occasion. My grand-dog Tosh (rhymes with Posh) heads towards Madison Park. In front of …
by Irene Davall The Dayton Foundation — the giving arm of Dayton Hudson Corporation — announced last summer that its …
by Beverly Lowy “Childhood is a time when ayoung person learns to love and trust. You weretaught a brutal lesson …
by Betsy Swart A Civil Disobedience Action at Emory University, to protest animal experimentation. While funding is unavailable for treatment …
by Margaret Randall I lean over the developing tray, agitating a print with bamboo tongs. Slowly, two figures darken on …
by Merle Hoffman It is the two outlaw women giving the ultimate “fuck you” to the patriarchy I never really …
by Jill Benderly In July, I received this letter from my best friend from Yugoslavia, a lesbian feminist activist from …
by Elayne Clift The National Institutes of Health (NIH), America’s premier institution for health research, is having its own pulse …
by Dr. Barbara Katz Rothman So now there’s a need for baby parts. Imagine that. Another miracle of modern science. …
by Amy Goodman She walked into the governor’s office wearing a Halloween mask, a purple wig, a floor-length red velvet …
by Fred Pelka People would turn up in the Nazi camp whom I was utterly surprised to find there Claudia …
by Darrell L. Paster ince 1969, Darrell L. Paster has been concerned with health issues involving poor people. He helped set …
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