Sample back issues of the Bastard Quarterly. Select articles can be read by clicking on the hyperlinks. The most recent 3 issues were available online to members only.

Spring/Summer 1998 - double issue: Vol 3, Issue 1 (see full cover)
Adoptive Parents issue
Articles:
* Adoptive Parents: Fables, Fears and Facts by L. Anne Babb, PhD
* Adoptee Rights Initiative Blasts to Ballot in OR
* I Don't Want Reunion - I Want My Rights by Christina Rossi
Special: Intenational Section
* An Outsider's Perspective: What's All the Fuss? By Damsel Plum
* States and Babes: A Personal and Political Perspective on International Adoption by Albert S. Wei
* International Adoption: Opening Pandora's Box by Peter F. Dodds
* American, Korean, or Both? Politics of Identity Reach Personal Levels by Crystal Chappell
Features:
* Book Review
Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption by E. Wayne Carp
Reviewed by CK Bertrand Holub
* Bastards by the Bay: The Convergence - Conference Scrapbook (photos from San Francisco conference)
* BN Welcomes New ExecCom Member: CK Bertrand Holub hits the Bastard Big Time
* Legislative Watch by Shea Grimm (DE, NJ, OR, TX, WA)
Humor:
* Bastard Viewpoint: cartoons by Charles Filius
* Dave's Top Ten Reasons to Support Measure 58 by Julie Dennis
* Bastrology by Charon Dunn-Roff

Fall 1998: Vol. 2, Issue 3 (see cover)
Victory in Oregon! issue
Special: Victory in Oregon
* Victory in Oregon! by Helen Hill (with photos by Denise Castellucci)
* History of Oregon's Adoptee Rights Initiative by BN Executive Committee
* On the Road in Oregon by Ron Morgan (with graphics by Charles Filius)
Articles:
* Thank you Mom by Jerry Stadtmiller
* National Adoptee Rights Day: December 3rd by Ron Morgan
Features:
* Oh Noooooo, Dr. Bill... by Marley Greiner
* Legislative Watch by Shea Grimm (AL, CA, IL, OR, TX)
* Call for Submissions for the Bastards on the Boardwalk BN conference 10/99
Special: Texas Section
* Texas Adoption Myths - Texas Adoption Realities by Deb McAlister
* Bastard on the Prowl: Gladney Picnic No Picnic by Julie Ann Andres
Humor:
* The Million Dog March by Sir Basket Lifton, MD (Mad Dog), dog of Betty Jean Lifton PhD (with photo)
* Ask Ophelia: Advice from a Bastard Socialite by Miss Ophelia B. Curvacioux
* Comics by Charles Filius
* Bastardly Xmas Carols by Julie Dennis and Charles Filius
* and more!

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