Byard Duncan, AlterNet. July 8, 2009. When I got the invite to a friend's abortion party, I thought it was a way to help her through a difficult decision. I was right and wrong.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. July 8, 2009. Carl's Jr.'s fattening, noxious non-food isn't just for dude-bros anymore. Now it's for scrawny hot chicks!
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation AlterNet: World. July 8, 2009. Brave New Foundation explores the disproportionate hardships of war on women and their families, and how you can help.
Latoya Peterson, Women News Network. July 7, 2009. Is the narrative around what's happening in Iran becoming dominated by the idea of what is beautiful?
Lynn Harris, AlterNet. June 26, 2009. Intimate partner violence doesn't always show up in police photos as swollen bruises. Instead, the evidence might be the victim's pregnant belly.
Barbara Crossette, The Nation. June 24, 2009. The pervasive presence of women in the Iran uprising have been cast into sharp focus by the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan during a street protest.
Andy Wright, AlterNet. June 22, 2009. Withdrawal is one of the oldest forms of birth control. Yet, our gender biases -- along with some very bad science -- have made it taboo.
Marcela Valente, IPS News. June 13, 2009. The International Planned Parenthood Federation launched the world's first declaration of sexual rights in the Buenos Aires on Wednesday.
The Associated Press June 10, 2009. Trump issued a statement Wednesday saying he sacked Prejean for failing to honor her commitments as Miss California USA.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. June 4, 2009. Every person who trots out vicious nonsense and misinformation about abortion played a part in the murder Dr. George Tiller.
Nicholas L. Syrett, National Sexuality Resource Center. June 4, 2009. Frat houses are a haven for a masculinity that takes sexual conquest as one of its defining characteristics. But frats have not always been this way.
Deborah Orr, Independent UK. May 28, 2009. The new Lars von Trier movie "Antichrist" makes us face our unhealthy assumptions about motherhood and sexuality.
Helen Benedict, The Nation. May 25, 2009. More women have fought and died in Iraq than in all the wars since World War II combined. Yet the military continues to treat them as inferior.
Greta Christina, The Blowfish Blog. May 23, 2009. Thankfully it's not a romantic comedy or sappy morality play in which the prostitute leaves the business to be with the guy.
Lauren Bans, AlterNet. May 22, 2009. The latest tabloid controversy over the Miss USA pageant yet again begs the question: Why is anyone taking this stuff seriously?
Jodie Evans, AlterNet. May 21, 2009. The Pentagon portrays Afghanistan as a moral battle to "protect" its women. Afghan women tell another story: more war equals suffering.
Nezua, Media Consortium AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. May 21, 2009. New America Media has just released the results of a poll titled "Women Immigrants: Stewards of the 21st Century."
