Articles & Essays
2021-2016
Stonewall 50: ‘Bisexual Is the Silent B in LGBT’, Daily Beast, June 2019
The F Word in Publishing, Publishers Weekly, May 2018
2015 - 2013
This Is What a Feminist Looks Like, MORE magazine, September 2015
Short Takes: Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, Signs Journal, June 2015
The Legacy of Campus Rape,
MORE magazine,
February 2015
Excerpt: We Do! American Leaders Who Believe in Marriage Equality,
The National Memo,
February 2014
2012 - 2008
The Soapbox: The Thing That Is Funny About Rape
The Frisky, 7/30/12
We’re Not Sorry. Still.
On The Issues, 2012
The Two of Us, When One Toddles
The New York Times, 8/25/11
From Dating a Woman To Marrying a Man
Harper's Bazaar, April 2011
Rave On: Jennifer Baumgardner on The Girls Who Went Away
Bitch, 7/14/09
Fashion Statement
Wondertime.com, September 2008
A Woman in the White House
HuffPost, 2/15/08
Remembering Barbara Seaman
HuffPost, 2/27/08
My Unexpected Family
Real Simple, March 2008
2007-2006
A Million Ways to Save the World
12/17/07
Fruitopia
Gay Utopia, December 2007
Coming Home
Redbook Magazine, May 2007
Why More Girls are Dating...Girls
Glamour Magazine, March 2007
Infant Industry: St. Elmo’s Fire: Under the Fuzzy Suit Beats a Heart of Gold
Babble, 3/28/07
Would You Pledge Your Virginity to Your Father?
Glamour Magazine, February 2007
Doing The Right Thing
Time Out NY Kids, January 2006
Is your love doomed? Ask your friends!
Glamour Magazine, 2006
This Could Be Your State
Jane, August 2006
2005
Dangerous Drinks
Teen Vogue, January 2005
Giving Women Room to Exhale
2005
2004-2003
Stop Crying, Start Working
The Nation, 11/20/04
One Women, One Vote co-authored with Amy Richards,
Mother Jones, 7/14/04
Preface
All The Power, 5/1/04
We're Not Sorry, Charlie
The Nation, 2/2/04
Aural History
Bitch Magazine, 2004
Roe In Rough Waters
The Nation, 2/10/03
The Number One Question About Feminism
Feminist Studies, 2003
2002-2000
When In Rome...
The Nation, 12/2/02
That Seventies Show
Dissent Magazine, 2002
Is This Woman, A Sexual Predator?
Elle Magazine, 2002
Saying Something About Today's Feminism
Gloria, 9/13/02
An Open Letter About Emergency Contraception, co-authored with Katha Pollitt
The Nation, 9/2/02
Winona LaDuke
Ms. Magazine, April 2001
The Pro-Choice PR Problem
The Nation, 3/5/01
Jennifer Baumgardner
Ms. Magazine, February 2001
Why The Female Eunuch?
2001
Burden Of Proof
Harper's Magazine, 2001
The Accidental Ghetto
January 2001
Fargo, North Dakota
New Music, July 2000
When Good Girls Go Bad
Maxim, January 2000
What Does Rape Look Like?
The Nation, 1/3/00
The Wage Gap
Z Magazine, May 2000
The Arc of Joan
Nerve, August 2000
Radical Procedures
2000
Kathleen Hanna
Rockrgrl, November 2000
In Our Time: Review
2000
For Women Only! Review
2000
Every 12 Seconds
Marie Claire, 2000
Electric, Honey
Rockrgrl, November 2000
A Day Without Feminism
Independent Weekly, 11/15/00
Does Your Boyfriend Own a Gun?
Mademoiselle, 2000
Abortion-On Occasion, With Apologies
Z Magazine, September 2000
Soapbox: Know where your gyno learned how to do abortions?
Jane, November 2000
1999-
Women's Music 101
Z Magazine, September 1999
Even our own Ms. Pratt thought the ERA was a dated subject.
Jane Magazine, October 1999
A Bookstore of One's Own
Jane Magazine, October 1999
Gutsy Woman of the Month
Jane Magazine, August 1999
Women's Health 911
Glamour Magazine, June 1999
Make Men Go To The Gyno
Glamour Magazine, April 1999
Why Not Elizabeth Dole
The Nation, 4/12/99
Thanks, Mr. Lady
Jane Magazine, 1999
'A', My Name is Alice
MAMM Magazine, January 1999
Immaculate Contraception
The Nation, 1/25/99
How To Find a Shrink
January 1999
In Defense of Monica
The Nation, 12/21/98
Friends and Lovers
December 1998
Science + Corporate Bucks = Health Revolution?
Ms. Magazine, June 1998
Miss America
Jane Magazine, April 1998
Women of the Year Indigo Girls & Winona LaDuke
Ms. Magazine, February 1998
New Way to Vent About Men
Glamour Magazine, 1997
Feminist Memoir Project Review
1997
Could You Help a Child Thrive? Meet Three Women Who Tried
1997
Breast Cancer Update
Out Magazine, November 1997
Rerun 2: After the Prom
The Nation, 10/20/97
Freaky Momma, Interview with bjork.
1996
Bold Type: Witchy Woman
Ms. Magazine, 1995