Higher Ground, Not Common Ground
by Merle Hoffman As a person who feels that war should be the strategy of last resort, I still like to ...
by Merle Hoffman As a person who feels that war should be the strategy of last resort, I still like to ...
From Poetry Co-Editor Clare CossWhat if your mother by Judith ArcanaBirth Control by Judith ArcanaResponsibility by Grace PaleyGentleness Stirred by ...
From the Editors This edition of On The Issues Magazine – Our Genders, Our Rights – discusses a topic that ...
Edited by Linda SteinArt by Judith K. Brodsky On The Issues Magazine provides an Online forum for artists to exhibit ...
by Merle Hoffman In our Spring ’09 edition, On The Issues Magazine writers and artists discuss feminist and progressive values ...
Obstetrician Murdered by Terrorist in Amherst, New Yorkby Judith Arcana This poem, written for Barnett Slepianis here dedicated, in memoriamand ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Our Bodies, Ourselves started with a small group of strangers talking to one another at a ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg “Lines in the Sand” can be either personal or political — or most often, both. Both ...
by Cindy Cooper What revolutions do we need? “We still need the feminist revolution,” Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority ...
by Jennifer S. Macleod Many established institutions and forces in our country are still fighting desperately against the Equal Rights ...
by Rebecca Chalker The Ancient Greek aphorism, “Know yourself,” was inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Whatever this ...
by Donna Schaper I am interested in an overall reversal of course when it comes to preparation for sexual intimacy, ...
By Lauren Guy McAlpin A young woman, we’ll call her Amanda, walked into an agency she saw advertised in her ...
by Pam Chamberlain When I was in college, a group of radical women dressed as witches ran around major U.S. ...
By Irasema Garza In the struggle for gender equality, the legal victories have been historic. Women’s employment and educational rights ...
by Jessica T. Solomon What if the people responsible for protecting our nation, writing our laws or discovering new medicines ...
by Lois Uttley Twelve years ago, Jane Van de Bogart took a stand: Kingston Hospital in rural Ulster County, NY, ...
by Emily May HollabackNYC started in 2005 the way a lot of good revolutions must begin – as conversations with ...
by Gloria Feldt Were you thinking we were done with elections and could take a few minutes to celebrate a ...
By Sarah Hackley Instead of a time of hope, pregnancy too often means death for women in developing countries. In ...
by Loretta J. Ross I’m not a policy wonk. I am very ill suited to talk frequently to legislators to ...
by Donna Schaper Attach fair and just policies to the “emergency” economic stimulus bills and you will find a powerful ...
Submitted to and Rejected by: The Los Angeles Times By Carol Downer International Women’s Day on March 8 has special ...
by Myra Kovary We are living in a new era for persons with disabilities. One sign of this occurred in ...
by Margot Mifflin How did it happen? One day I was a twentysomething heaping scorn on Tipper Gore and her ...
By Lesley Cohen Healthcare remains a forefront issue for the American public. With a new president who acknowledges the need ...
by Janet Benshoof American women need legal tools to fight patriarchy. Women outside of the U.S. are pushing for and getting ...
by Diana Egozcue I get a lot of questions and statements when I explain that I am campaigning for the ...
By Mahin Hassibi For the past century and a half, every new discovery of biology has left intact, and even ...
by Mahin Hassibi A clear consensus exists among women writers of varied ages, educational backgrounds and life circumstances in the ...
by Merle Hoffman We asked leading thinkers to describe New Revolutions We Need for a feminist and progressive future. Here’s one response. Oscar ...
by Alexis Greene Over the years, Bill Baird, the reproductive rights activist, has been threatened, arrested and jailed. He’s been called ...
By Gloria Feldt Lars Larson is a conservative radio talk show host with a following of four million listeners. His ...