Sample back issues of the Bastard Quarterly. Select articles can be read by clicking on the hyperlinks. The most recent 3 issues are available online to members only. Contact BN's Membership Chair if you have forgotten your password. Letters to the Editor may be emailed to bqletters@bastards.org.

Summer 2000: Vol 4, Issue 2
Print version should arrive in member mailboxes no later than August 30th.

Articles:

* Alabama Restores Adoptee Rights by David Ansardi and Sandra Pears-Wilson
* Better than a Box of Kleenex by Mary Peret
* Influencing Legislation by Kevin McCarty
* Scarlet Women, Bastards, and Happy Families: Cinematic Representations of Adoption
Part 2- The Bastard Experience
by Marley Elizabeth Greiner

Features:

* Letter from the Editor by Damsel Plum
* Open Records in Oregon Press Release
* Bastards in the Emerald City conference registration: Register online via credit card on our secure server!
* Legislative Watch

Book Reviews:

* "Ethics in American Adoption" by L. Anne Babb, reviewed by Lesli LaRocco
* "The Kid" by Dan Savage, reviewed by Anita Field

Film Review:

* Jurassinine Bastard: Disney's Dinosaur
Reviewed by Marlena Villers

Fall 2000: Vol. 4, Issue 3

Articles:

* A Short Personal History of Adoption Reform by Mary Anne Cohen
* Adoptee Rights in the 20th Century and into the 21st, Ideologies and their Impact on Activist Strategy and Success, by Damsel Plum
* Jesus as Bastard by Rev. John Sweeley

Features:

* Letter from the Editor by Damsel Plum
* Bastard Nation Helps Protect the Rights of Intercountry Adoptees
* Legislative Watch

Book Reviews:

Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century by Simson Garfinkel
Reviewed by Damsel Plum

The Face in the Mirror: Teenagers and Adoption by Marion Crook
Reviewed by Natalie Proctor Servant

Winter 2000: Vol 4, Issue 4

Spring and Summer 2001

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