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 1999: Vol 3, Issue 2
Articles:
* The Personal And The Political: The Wisdom of Keeping Them Separate
by Mary Anne Cohen
* Know Thine Enemies: Opponents of Open Records by Marley Greiner and Ron Morgan
* What is Bastard Nation?: A Short Updated History by Damsel Plum
Features:
* The Hague Convention in Respect of Intercountry Adoption Resolution of the Executive Committee
of Bastard Nation:
* Legislative Watch
* BN Leadership News
* "Your Wildest Dreams, Your Worst Nightmares": Mock Conference Proposal Contest
Poetry:
* The Table by K.T. Crocker
* The Lament of Billy the Beast (humorous verse) by John Sweeley
Humor:
* Bastard Books: The Fall 99 Catalog
* Marley Greiner: Activist, Housewife, Mother by Pandora Bocks

Fall 1999: Vol. 3, Issue 3
Articles:
* Open Records Around the World: An Introduction by Albert S. Wei
* Constitutional Issues and Open Records for Adult Adoptees from The Basic Bastard
* A Pennsylvania Bastard on the PA Adoption Advisory Committee by Cynthia Bertrand Holub
* Illinois and HB 631: Fine-tuning Discrimination against Adopted Adults by Anita Walker Field
Features:
* On the Road with the Birthmother Quilt by Damsel Plum
* Bastards Are God's Children Too by Kathleen Crocker
* Legislative Watch: by Julie Dennis
* Letter to the Editor from Rosalind Maya Lama
Poetry:
Elemental by Damsel Plum
Humor:
Ask Ophelia: Advice from a Bastard Socialite by Ophelia B. Curvacioux
Graphics:
* Spermie toon by Filius

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