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 1999/2000: Vol 3, Issue 4

Articles:

* Ethics and Adoption Indeed: Notes from the Evan B. Donaldson Symposium on Ethics in Adoption by Damsel Plum and Denise Castellucci
* Southern Blood, Utah Roots by Carolyn Campbell

Features:

* Oregon Court Of Appeals Upholds Adoptee Rights In Doe V. Oregon Bastard Nation Press Release
* National Adoptee Rights Day Reports: from the 2nd annual NARD event: December 3, 1999
* Legislative Watch
Book Review:
* Ghost at Heart's Edge, Stories and Poems of Adoption
Edited by Susan Ito and Tina Cervin, Reviewed by Ron Morgan
Poetry/Humor:
* A Poetic Correspondence by "Dr. Sorrows" and Mary Anne Cohen

Spring 2000: Vol. 4, Issue 1

BASTARDS AT THE MOVIES issue
Print version should arrive in member mailboxes no later than May 30th.

Articles:

* Scarlet Women, Bastards, and Happy Families: Cinematic Representations of Adoption
Part I - The Birthmother Experience
by Marley Elizabeth Greiner

* For Becky, My Sister: A Memorial by Charles Filius

Features:

Films Reviews:

* Cider House Rules, Disney's Tarzan, Stuart Little
Reviewed by Marlena Villers, Lori Pringle, Mary Hunt

Summer 2000, Fall, Winter 2000

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