Exclusive: Women of Color Push Boundaries on Reproductive Justice
by Natalie Bell Women of color increasingly feel empowered and emboldened to defend their rights to make healthy decisions about ...
by Natalie Bell Women of color increasingly feel empowered and emboldened to defend their rights to make healthy decisions about ...
by Betsy Hartmann It’s back to the bad old days of the population bomb. That was the title of an ...
by Rinku Sen Something happened in the months leading up to and including the election of Barack Obama as the ...
By Laurie Mazur In “The ‘New’ Population Control Craze: Retro, Racist, Wrong Way to Go” ( in this edition of ...
by Maame-Mensima Horne For years reproductive justice activists have been calling for African American women to break the silence around abortion ...
From the Editors What do postfeminism and postracialism have to do with liberation and freedom? The answer is clear: nothing ...
By Serena Garcia The ascension of Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States in fall 2009 ...
by Josie Lehrer Before a standing room-only house at the debut presentation of the Mens Story Project in August 2008, Kenyatta, a ...
by Eleanor J. Bader It is the third week of classes at P.S. 130, The Parkside School in Brooklyn, New ...
by Jacqui Patterson The effects of climate change threaten everyone, but they do not threaten all people equally. Women are ...
by Suzanne Pharr Recently, I went to the Kentucky Social Forum, and spent time talking with a co-worker and friend ...
by Kate Bornstein Gender rights are often reduced to the rights of women and the rights of men. But over ...
by Graciela Sanchez We are the survivors of physical and cultural genocide.All people of color in the U.S.Are survivors of ...
by Donna Nelson October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This poem “Barrettes, Bandages and Butterflies,” was inspired by my friend who passed away ...
by Nancy Genova The Death of Dream is a play about domestic violence that is slightly different from other artistic pieces ...
by Christine E. Hutchins There is very little new under the sun. Misogyny in art, literature and other records dates ...
by Thea Hillman When I first learned about intersex, it was from a friend of mine who had just completed ...
by Merle Hoffman There is one place where the definition of gender remains binary – in the womb. When it ...
by Angela Bonavoglia On a sizzling summer night, I head to the Outpost Lounge in Brooklyn to Switch N’ Play’s Open Drag ...
by Carolyn Gage The bathroom has been a site of “gender anxiety” historically, as well as a battlefield, and, although ...
by Joel VigGender in the theatre has always been open to change. From Shakespeare’s plays, where women’s roles were performed ...
by Janis Hashe Two twentysomething women reviewed the movie, Terminator Salvation, in my local Chattanooga paper earlier this summer. “Generally one of ...
Compiled by Mary Lou Greenberg Strict and immutable gender roles are the cornerstone of right wing theology and politics and ...
by Helen Boyd It’s been a surprise to find out what a sexist I really am. I’ve been calling myself ...
by Merle Hoffman Growing up in Philadelphia in the 50s, girls were labeled sluts if they dressed provocatively, let boys ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Robert Eads was visiting friends in the late 1990s when he woke up in a pool ...
By Molly M. Ginty One progressive “line in the sand” is the conviction that all people are entitled to clean ...
by Rev. Donna Schaper Who tells women and girls who we are? Of course it is we who tell us ...
by Georgia Kral Longtime gamer Michael Duff sits at his computer regularly to play “World of Warcraft,” the most popular online ...
by Mahin Hassibi The feminist movement began to raise questions about the cultural root of male supremacy. The simplified male-female ...
By Judy Gumbo Alpert I am one of the 45 million American women who’s had an abortion. But I wouldn’t ...
by Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer Had I not escaped one night five years ago with my eight children from ...
By Simon Fisher The need for a youth-focused and culturally appropriate HIV/AIDS educational platform is urgent. Despite growing infection rates, youth-centered prevention ...