Ask, Tell, Don’t Kill Ask, Tell, Don’t Kill
Seventeen years after Bill Clinton's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" compromise, the institutionalized closet in the military should soon be gone. With the Senate vote to repeal, ...
Dec 21, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
When Interpol Cares About Sexual Assault When Interpol Cares About Sexual Assault
Julian Assange turned himself in Tuesday—he's been arrested and is being held without bail in London ahead of a hearing on extradition to Sweden. If women's security is sudde...
Dec 7, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Conversation: Katha Pollitt on Conservative Feminism Conversation: Katha Pollitt on Conservative Feminism
Sarah Palin is busily trying to sell "conservative feminism" to the masses, but her idea of feminism certainly doesn't include reproductive choice or sexual freedom. ...
Dec 3, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Conversation: Katha Pollitt on Conservative Feminism Conversation: Katha Pollitt on Conservative Feminism
Sarah Palin is busily trying to sell "conservative feminism" to the masses, but her idea of feminism certainly doesn't include reproductive choice or sexual freedom. Me...
Motel-land Motel-land
For Americans teetering on the edge of poverty, in other rooms there are other trials.
Dec 2, 2010 / Editorial / JoAnn Wypijewski
On Condoms, Hope From the Pope On Condoms, Hope From the Pope
The pope has said both men and women can use condoms to protect themselves from HIV. Can he now say that women can use them to protect themselves from the dangers of pregnanc...
Nov 23, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell—Anyone, Anywhere Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell—Anyone, Anywhere
Even proponents of repeal assume that DADT only interferes with the ability of gay servicemembers to serve openly, leaving them to conduct their private lives in, well, private. We...
Nov 16, 2010 / Daniel Redman and Ilona Turner
Students and Sex Work Students and Sex Work
Canadian students, sex workers and researchers respond to UK study on students' willingness to consider sex work.
Nov 15, 2010 / StudentNation / Joanna Chiu
For Colored Girls, Is Tyler Perry’s Film Enuf? For Colored Girls, Is Tyler Perry’s Film Enuf?
To hear Tyler Perry tell it, black women are forever in flux amidst hate. But the original For Colored Girls grappled with much more than the weight of trauma, injustice and abuse.
Nov 12, 2010 / Courtney Young
‘I Had An Abortion,’ in 140 Characters or Less: An Exchange With Steph Herold and Aspen Baker ‘I Had An Abortion,’ in 140 Characters or Less: An Exchange With Steph Herold and Aspen Baker
What happens when women tell their abortion stories on Twitter? Is it good for the pro-choice movement—and is it good for them?
Nov 12, 2010 / Steph Herold and Aspen Baker