Gender and Sexuality

The Anti-Abortion Movement Weaponizes Women Against Women

The Anti-Abortion Movement Weaponizes Women Against Women The Anti-Abortion Movement Weaponizes Women Against Women

Anti-abortion women perpetuate the idea that women’s lives are about deference and self-sacrifice. But women must help one another see ourselves as human first.

May 27, 2022 / Column / Nicole Nehrig

The DCCC and the DSCC Are Not On Our Side

The DCCC and the DSCC Are Not On Our Side The DCCC and the DSCC Are Not On Our Side

We won’t come close to the changes this country desperately needs unless progressives transform the Democratic Party from within.

May 27, 2022 / Robert L. Borosage

Urvashi Vaid holds up a sign that says

Urvashi Vaid, 1958–2022 Urvashi Vaid, 1958–2022

Telling the truth, standing together, and fighting for liberation.

May 26, 2022 / Obituary / Laura Flanders

Marching for Choice

Marching for Choice Marching for Choice

NYC, May 14, 2022.

May 24, 2022 / OppArt / Holly Kuper

March for Reproductive Rights

There’s No Place for Bystanders in the Coming Abortion Battle There’s No Place for Bystanders in the Coming Abortion Battle

Sixty years ago, it seemed remarkably clear how crucial it was that men stop leaving women to face this nightmare essentially alone—and it still does.

May 20, 2022 / Robert Lipsyte

If These Walls Could Talk

If These Walls Could Talk If These Walls Could Talk

Women’s right to choose is under attack again.

May 19, 2022 / OppArt / Holly Ballard Martz

When Right-Wing Attacks on School Textbooks Fell Short

When Right-Wing Attacks on School Textbooks Fell Short When Right-Wing Attacks on School Textbooks Fell Short

Some essential lessons from an earlier culture war.

May 18, 2022 / Jonathan Zimmerman

Abortion rights activist holding sign

The Supreme Court and the Church: A Conversation With Frances Kissling The Supreme Court and the Church: A Conversation With Frances Kissling

In the wake of the Supreme Court leak, the former president of Catholics for a Free Choice discusses the moral obligation to take care of women in need of abortions.

May 18, 2022 / Q&A / Claudia Dreifus

Protesters in Bogota, Colombia, on International Women's Day

Gleaning Hope From Latin America’s Abortion Rights Revolution Gleaning Hope From Latin America’s Abortion Rights Revolution

After centuries of living under some of the most draconian abortion laws imaginable, millions of women in Latin America now have access to legal abortion. How did they do it?

May 18, 2022 / Omar G. Encarnación

Portraits of Cowardice: SCOTUS Poised to Overturn “Roe v. Wade”

Portraits of Cowardice: SCOTUS Poised to Overturn “Roe v. Wade” Portraits of Cowardice: SCOTUS Poised to Overturn “Roe v. Wade”

Portraits of Sam Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, Jeff Flake, Lisa Murkowski, and Joe Manchin.

May 17, 2022 / OppArt / Colleen Quinn

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