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.

Winter 1999: Vol 2, Issue 4
Articles:
* Adoption in 1998: Shame, Fear and Hope by Albert S. Wei
* Search and Notify by Shea Grimm
* Bastard X-Files Project by Marley Greiner
Features:
* A Grandmother's Gift by Natalie Proctor
* International Adoptee Resources on the Internet
* Oh Noooooo, Dr. Bill... by Marley Greiner
* Legislative Watch by Shea Grimm
* Letter to the Editor
Film Review:
* Reno Finds her Mom reviewed by Janine Baer
Poetry:
* A Rain of Tears of Congealed Iron by Rosalind Maya Lama
Humor:
* The Bastard Fish by John Sweeley
* L. Anne Babb Adopts Self by Glenda Addney
* The Painful Reality of "The Primal Paper Cut" by Dr. Leera Lipshitz

Spring 1999: Vol. 3, Issue 1
Features:
* Bastard Nation Annual Financial Report - 1998
* National Council for Adoption Protest "In the Belly of the Beast" - selections from Marley Greiner, Julie Dennis, Cynthia Holub, John Peret and Mary Hunt - Photo Gallery
* Bastards on the Boardwalk! 3rd Annual BN conference in Atlantic City, NJ 10/99
* Legislative Watch by Shea Grimm
Book Reviews:
* Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found by Sarah Saffian
reviewed by Shea Grimm
* Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina, by Rita Arditti, reviewed by Janine Baer

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