by Eleanor J. Bader To the anti-abortion movement, standing outside clinic doors and bellowing at patients and staff that they …
by Edna Adan Ismail A very distraught old woman came to Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland, appealing to …
by Melissa Nalani Ross In my work on civil and human rights, especially with immigrant populations, I was contacted recently …
by Rachel West On election day many hope for a transformation away from the politics of war, greed and repression. …
by Sallie Bingham The statistics about violence against women in the United States have a deadly sameness that can numb …
By Tawanda Mudzonga Zimbabwe has always been ruled by fear and violence. Our political history reveals government again and again …
by Merle Hoffman I have been on the psychological defensive since Sarah Palin was chosen as the Republican Vice Presidential …
By Ariel Dougherty On election day many hope for a transformation away from the politics of war, greed and repression. …
by Alexis Greene Recently, while walking on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where I live, I saw a woman …
OTI Online provides a forum for artists to exhibit their art, including moving images and audio, as well as stills. …
Poems by Kirsten Rian and Juditha Dowd Reading Poems By Girl Mothers in Sierra Leone – by Kirsten Rian It …
By Melynda H. Barnhart Feminist debates about sex work, prostitution, and sex trafficking raged long before the debate was enshrined …
By Mary Lou Greenberg During the recent Beijing Olympics, the Washington Post reported that up to 10 million women in …
by Angela Bonavoglia In the wake of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s stunning fall from grace in March 2008 for …
by Alexis Greene “You will not fight your battles on my body anymore.” Thus speaks the character of the Congolese …
by Ann Jordan Between March and June, scores of women in Cambodia were rounded up and held in detention where …
By Penelope Saunders In late 2004 and early 2005, the Mayor of Washington, D.C. proposed several new laws to augment …
By Nicole Witte Solomon In 2004, Rachel Aimee, Rebecca Lynn and Raven Strega hit upon a radical notion. The media …
by Mary Lou Greenberg Women and sex — for pleasure, for money, as an oppression, as a profession — is …
by Carol Leigh Prostitutes are “the only street fighters we’ve got,” wrote radical feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson in her 1974 book, Amazon …
By Jaye Austin Williams It was a peculiar Christmas the year my Aunt Mickey told me of my unsavory beginnings. …
By Linda Stein OTI Online provides a forum for artists to exhibit their art, including moving images and audio, as …
Poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt and Erin Whitfield Selling Women – By Minnie Bruce PrattOn the cell phone to a …
By Lakshmi Anantnarayan The great divide in the women’s movement on the subject of prostitution has been well-documented and even …
By Jane Roberts I look at the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and cringe. I don’t give a damn about …
By Mahin Hassibi I have come to the conclusion — albeit reluctantly — that selling sex for money or a …
By Christine Stark I can’t write nothingBeautiful. I am expected to be that way because I am a girl writer …
by Sonia Ossorio I know a woman from South America who spent her first night in the Big Apple in …
by Shere Hite “I always wanted to have orgasm during intercourse with him — seems like the impossible dream. I …
by Norma Ramos Home Box Office (HBO) advertises the Cathouse DVD this way: If you’ve got a credit card, it’s all there …
by Ariel Dougherty Working Girls is a classic film on sex work, which many professors report using in college courses for …
by Juhu Thukral The idea of sex workers fighting for their human rights is a foreign concept to most people, …
by Bernadette Barton Every semester I assign my undergraduate students in my gender and sexuality courses a class project on …
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