Two young girls lost. The name of one, Jon Benet Ramsey, is etched in the collective U.S. consciousness. The other, Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, barely registers—if it registers at all.
“Is there any way that we can stop this?” Regan Hofmann asked the Creative Director of POZ magazine the night before its April edition went to press. With the April issue, Hofmann officially came ou...
Global warming is—pardon the expression—hotter than ever.
Recent developments, from rising oil prices to extreme weather patterns and rampant natural disaster, have raised reluctant awareness in t...
On August 24th, in an almost complete reversal of its 2004 decision, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Plan B emergency contraception to be sold over the counter, but only to women 18 ...
Recently released court documents in a suit filed against the Food and Drug Administration charge that the FDA faced undue political pressure by the Bush Administration to stymie over-the-counter sa...
One young woman tells that her mother cried at her birth, disappointed that she was a girl. Another says her parents had initially planned to abort her, wanting a son.
“It’s just not the way that ...
In the midst of the war, world pride events for LGBT dignity were held in Jerusalem last week. The march was cancelled because of the war, but all the other events took place.
The march had faced ...
Writing her memoir Secret Daughter “has been a journey in learning how fallible memory is and how changeable a story can get,” said June Cross at a recent journalists’ lunch at the Women’s Media Cen...
Like the families of hundreds of murdered and missing women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Cipriana Jurado is infuriated as they face yet another setback in their mission for justice. More than 400 young...
In the displacement of Lebanese civilians due to the current conflict, women are suffering the most, said Lina Abou-Habib, speaking from Beirut on a marathon broadcast by FIRE (Feminist Internationa...
Lurking in the anti-choice arsenal is a fascinating piece of legislation called the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act. Like its predecessors—the Unborn Victims of Violence Act and the Partial Birth Ab...