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Darby: Women Creating
Zmag Article, July, 01 2006
Jodi Darby
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B olivian anarchofeminist Maria Galindo is one of the founding members of Mujeres Creando (Women Creating). Mujeres Creando operates a café, library, press, and community center in the Sopocac...
Bronski: Wayne Healy v. Luis Spencer
Zmag Article, June, 01 2006
Michael Bronski
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Wayne Healy v. Luis Spencer
Bronski: Abortion Rights and Gay Rights
Zmag Article, May, 01 2006
Michael Bronski
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O n March 6 South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signed a comprehensive bill that would enact a near-total ban on abortions. He described the bill as a “direct frontal assault” on Ro...
Popkin: The Personal is Political
Zmag Article, May, 01 2006
Anna Popkin
Popkin's ZSpace page
This essay is from an edited collection titled They Should Have Served That Cup of Coffee: 7 Radicals Remember the 60s, edited by Dick Cluster (South End Press, 1979). The essays are all writ...
Bader: Britain Defies U.S. on Gag Rule
Zmag Article, May, 01 2006
Eleanor j. Bader
Bader's ZSpace page
I t is obvious that nothing good is happening domestically on reproductive rights. Internationally, however, a small bright spot appeared in mid-February when Britain’s Department for Interna...
Bronski: When Is a Hate Crime Not a Hate Crime?
Zmag Article, April, 01 2006
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
F rom being physically harassed in my middle-class New Jersey Catholic high school in the mid-1960s to being assaulted in Boston’s outdoor cruising areas, I’ve seen a lot of anti-gay ha...
Bronski: Brokeback Mountain
Zmag Article, March, 01 2006
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
I t’s official. With eight Oscar nominations—including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor— Brokeback Mountain is this y...
Rowbotham: Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Sheila Rowbotham
Rowbotham's ZSpace page
The Z Classics series is intended to chronicle the many contributions activsts and scholars have made to current inclusive revolutionary theory, vision, and strategy. Sheila Rowbotham's book, Woman's Consiousness, Man's World, excerpted here, was ...
Bronski: Analysis This
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
O n December 25, 2005 Dr. Charles Socarides died at the age of 83 in New York where he had lived and worked as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Socarides had been nationally famous in the 1960s, a...
Bonfiglio: USA PATRIOT Act
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Olga Bonfiglio
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R ecent revelations about domestic spying have startled a U.S. public that thought it had adequate safeguards to protect its privacy. But those who have been observing the Bush administration ...
Bader: Emergency Contraception
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Eleanor j. Bader
Bader's ZSpace page
W hen Annie Tummino went on vacation two years ago, she forgot to take her birth control pills for several days. Despite three summers interning at the National Organization for Women (NOW) in New ...
Bronski: Wedding Bell Blues
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
I t looks like same-sex marriage is here to stay. It’s even beginning to look downright patriotic. This past Fourth of July, Cambridge Massachusetts saw one of its most prominent lesbian coup...
Harris: Women, Gays, and Basketball
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Mark t. Harris
Harris's ZSpace page
T he announcement by WNBA superstar Sheryl Swoopes that she’s gay was greeted by the nation’s sports commentators mostly with an accepting shrug. Swoopes can be who she is and be open a...
Chew: Why the War Is Sexist
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Huibin amee Chew
Chew's ZSpace page
R efusing to be silenced as a military parent, Cindy Sheehan’s voice lent new urgency to stopping the war in Iraq. She has been likened to a Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement. Both widely r...
Bader: The Flores Case
Zmag Article, September, 01 2005
Eleanor j. Bader
Bader's ZSpace page
I n the early 1970s Peggy Rom- berg, CEO of the Women Health and Family Planning Association of Texas, heard about women who threw themselves down stairs, douched with lye, and drank bottles of whiskey to induce a misc...
Bronski: No Hope for the Pope
Zmag Article, July, 01 2005
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
I t should have come as no surprise, but somehow liberal Catholics in the U.S. were caught off guard when the conservative Cardinal John Ratzinger became Benedict XVI. With this new hardline Pope in place, U.S. liberal...
Nygaard: Sex, Drugs, and Teens
Zmag Article, July, 01 2005
Jeff Nygaard
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P ublic policies relating to things like sex, drugs, crime, and death are often lumped together under the term “morality politics.” To enter the realm of morality politics, an issue must touch on controvers...
Oja jay: Media Reform and Media Revolution
Zmag Article, July, 01 2005
Dru Oja jay
Oja jay's ZSpace page
T he dominant evaluation of this year’s National Conference on Media Reform is that it was an overwhelming success. On the contrary—relative to where the movement could and should be—the conference’s ...
Crane: Class Matters
Zmag Article, July, 01 2005
Carolyn Crane
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B etsy Leondar-Wright is Communications Director for United for a Fair Economy. Her book is Class Matters: Cross Class Alliance Building for Middle Class Activists. Leondar-Wright is based in Massachusetts....
Bronski: Not So GLAAD Anymore
Zmag Article, May, 01 2005
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
O n January 23, 2005 Joan Garry, the executive director of Gay and Lesbian Advocates Against Defamation (GLAAD), announced that she will be leaving her post after an eight year tenure. Garry—who came to GLAAD aft...
