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Zmag Article Weidman: Zapatista Women's Encuentro

Zmag Article, March, 01 2008 Kaya Weidman
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Just after midnight on January 1, 2008, the 14th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising began and the caracol of La Garrucha was alive with celebration. We watched from the top of a refurbished school bus as a mass of bodies danced below a sky litt...

Zmag Article Barsamian: Pakistan in Peril

Zmag Article, March, 01 2008 David Barsamian
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Fatima Bhutto published her first book, Whispers of the Desert, a collection of poetry, when she was 15. She is a graduate of Columbia and the London School of Oriental and African Studies. Her articles appear in the LA Times, CounterPunch, and ot...

Zmag Article Bronski: Bob Dylan and Judy Garland: Together Again (Crossdressed)

Zmag Article, February, 01 2008 Michael Bronski
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Transvestism—and other forms of gender impersonation—has been a staple of almost all cultures from the “aboriginal” to the alleged height of European western civilization. American culture has dabbled with an enthusiasm for it in the past in such ...

Zmag Article Bader: Cindy Cooper and "Words of Choice"

Zmag Article, January, 01 2008 Eleanor j. Bader
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Words of Choice doesn’t literally hit readers upside the head to shake some sense into them, but it comes close. Based on Cindy Cooper’s long-running play of the same name, the film demonstrates why women need abortion and other reproductive optio...

Zmag Article Bronski: Gayspeak vs Christianspeak

Zmag Article, December, 01 2007 Michael Bronski
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At first the case seemed simple. A student in a high school English class said, out loud, “Take all the fucking faggots out in the back woods and kill them.” Aside from wondering what book they may have been discussing—Mein Kampf?—most people woul...

Zmag Article Bader: Book Review - Getting Off by Robert Jensen

Zmag Article, December, 01 2007 Eleanor j. Bader
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My husband tells me that when heterosexual men talk about women in the locker room, the conversation reeks of sexism. For example, his largely middle-aged comrades reject their intellectual and social equals—they argue that females over 30 are uni...

Zmag Article Bader: Men and Abortion

Zmag Article, November, 01 2007 Eleanor j. Bader
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In the early 1980s, anti-abortion forces began to heed criticism that their reverence for the fetus came at the expense of women. In short order, Crisis Pregnancy Centers sprang up around the country. Armed with baby blankets and diapers, they pre...

Zmag Article Rassbach: The War On Terror Is A Mockery

Zmag Article, November, 01 2007 Elsa Rassbach
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Malalai Joya is, at age 29, the youngest person to become a member of the Afghan Parliament. She was one of 68 women elected to the 249-seat National Assembly, or Wolesi Jirga, in 2005. But after she spoke out against the fundamentalists and forme...

Zmag Article Albert: Rorty the Politico

Zmag Article, September, 24 2007 Michael Albert
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Society’s Pliers Rorty the Politico Criticizing a philosopher who criticizes the Left By Michael Albert   In his recent book, Achieving Our Country, “one of America’s foremost philosophers,” ...

Zmag Article Bronski: Activist Teaching

Zmag Article, April, 01 2007 Michael Bronski
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I ’ve been having these flashbacks recently while I’ve been teaching. Not really acid flashbacks (well I guess they could be), but vivid split-second memories of where I was and what I ...

Zmag Article Hooks: Straightening Our Hair

Zmag Article, April, 01 2007 Bell Hooks
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I n October 1987 we mailed the 32-page brochure pictured above to 40,000 people, asking them to suscribe to a new radical magazine covering a wide range of topics and featuring over 35 regular ...

Zmag Article Bronski: Camping it Up with The Bad Seed

Zmag Article, March, 01 2007 Michael Bronski
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S he is instantly recognizable as a camp icon. With her flouncing gingham dress, blond pigtails, obnoxious bangs, and disingenuously angelic voice, eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark—“the bad...

Zmag Article Crane: The Right Wing on Campus

Zmag Article, March, 01 2007 Carolyn Crane
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A nuradha Mittal is the founder of the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank. In 2005 the Institute published a paper outlining the role of right-wing organizations in shaping political dialogue o...

Zmag Article Bronski: Gay History as Guest Speaker

Zmag Article, February, 01 2007 Michael Bronski
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T his year was the fourth time I’ve taught “Introduction to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies” at Dartmouth College. The course covers history, sociology, theory, an...

Zmag Article Sargent: We’re Still Here

Zmag Article, January, 01 2007 Lydia Sargent
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W hen Michael Albert and I left South End Press (after ten years) in 1988 to start Z Magazine (with $40,000), it didn’t occur to us that one day we’d be celebrating our 20th yea...

Zmag Article Bader: Suicide Arsonist Rocks Iowa Health Center

Zmag Article, January, 01 2007 Eleanor j. Bader
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A s reproductive rights activists across the U.S. gather to commemorate the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22, they’ll of course cheer the defeat of South Dakota’s abortion ban. C...

Zmag Article Bronski: Beyond

Zmag Article, September, 01 2006 Michael Bronski
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Well, it looks like the fight for same-sex marriage is really heating up.

Zmag Article Parsons: A New Generation of Youth Labor Activists

Zmag Article, September, 01 2006 Rachel Parsons
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I attended the 13th Annual Labor Notes Conference, “Building Solidarity from Below,” with 900 other labor activists this past May in Dearborn, Michigan and talked with many of the young...

Zmag Article Bronski: Is the Gay Rights Movement Doomed to Fail?

Zmag Article, July, 01 2006 Michael Bronski
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T he gay rights movement has hit a brick wall. Yes, we have same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. Yes, the Supreme Court overturned state anti-sodomy laws. Yes, gay characters are all over mainstream...

Zmag Article Mclune: Hip-Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women

Zmag Article, July, 01 2006 Jennifer Mclune
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K evin Powell in Notes of a HipHop Head writes, “Indeed, like rock and roll, hip-hop sometimes makes you think we men don’t like women much at all, except to objectify them as trophy pieces...

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