My Body, My Choice, My Intimate War
By Abigail Collazo January 17, 2012 What does war look like Taste like Smell like Images and soundtracks come to ...
By Abigail Collazo January 17, 2012 What does war look like Taste like Smell like Images and soundtracks come to ...
By Sarah Flint Erdreich January 17, 2012 It had been a lovely wedding, and now the reception was packed. We ...
by Tanya Melich Republican women have become a not-so-subtle weapon for breaking apart the Democratic coalition, grounded in the women’s ...
by Kathryn Joyce These days anti-abortion ingénue Lila Rose needs no introduction. In advertisements for this year’s Values Voter Summit, ...
By Gabrielle Korn January 12, 2012 Maayan Melamed, a first-year medical student at The Medical School for International Health at ...
by Merle Hoffman When I first opened a clinic for women’s abortion care in Flushing, New York in 1971, women ...
by Carole Joffe What about abortion gives it staying power as the central issue in domestic politics, even in the ...
by Alexis Greene Words of Choice first emerged as a theatrical performance in the late 1990s when Cindy Cooper, its creator, ...
by Gloria Feldt The day before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was expected to rule, rumors circulated that the ...
by Sarah Elspeth Patterson December 8, 2011 Sexuality education is, in many ways, an esteem-building practice. Knowledge of any kind, ...
by Alison Yager December 1, 2011 In August 2011, New York City announced that all public middle and high schools ...
by Anne Galisky My first feature-length documentary film, “Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth,” was produced by a scrappy crew, undocumented ...
by Susie Cagle Graphic journalist Susie Cagle researched anti-abortion Crisis Pregnancy Centers by visiting several in the Bay Area “pretending ...
By Carolyn Gage November 23, 2011 The emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement would not have been a surprise ...
by Gabrielle Korn “What does activism mean to you?” Jennifer Baumgardner: For me, activism is putting into action my feminist ...
by Leslie Cagan My mind is racing as I begin to address this quite large topic: the state of progressive ...
Student Think Tank is a new feature of On The Issues Magazine to host and include the writings of students on feminist and ...
by Sunsara Taylor People generally think of activism as something you do. But activism aimed at changing how people think is equally important. ...
by Lindsey Hennawi “This Little Light of Mine” is the song that my mother chose for all of us to ...
by Kathleen Barry November 16, 2011 Here we go again! Last week Mother Jones published an article, “Herman Cain’s Sexual Harassment Scandal ...
by Amanda Marcotte My fondest wish for 2012 is that it becomes the year where we, as a society, stop ...
by Crystal DeBoise November 10, 2011 Last winter, “Sheila,”a sex worker in her early 20s, had just finished her counseling ...
By Cindy Cooper November 3, 2011 “I think there may be a new page that we’ve come to the United ...
by Ileana Jiménez During a recent Twitter chat on #sheparty hosted by the Women’s Media Center, I tweeted: “How many feminists ...
October 29, 2011 In Mississippi, we are witnessing the intersection of race and gender politics in two ballot initiatives on ...
By Gabrielle Korn October 28, 2011 Uncovering the roots of global sex trafficking and protecting its victims are driving forces ...
by Carol Downer In the 1970s, I got involved in the women’s self-help movement in California, traveling the countryside to ...
By Mary Lou Greenberg October 7, 2011 Karen Duda signed petitions, went to rallies and participated in traditional pro-choice activism. ...
by Merle Hoffman When I first opened a clinic for women’s abortion care in New York in 1971, women finally ...
by Stephanie Gilmore In Cuernavaca, Mexico and Tegucigalpa, Honduras, it was called Marcha de las Putas. In New Delhi, it was Besharmi ...
by Laura Whitehorn If you saw the film The Weather Underground, you saw about three minutes of me. The film, through ...
By Sarah Byrnes October 20, 2011 Here in the U.S., our economic system is just not working for most Americans. ...
By Rosalyn Baxandall October 14, 2011 At last the 99 percent are shaming them: “This is not a Recession; It’s ...