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
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
Print version should arrive in member mailboxes no later than December
30, 2000.
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
* Bastards
Sparkle in the Emerald City: Report from the 4th annual Bastard Nation
conference in Seattle, WA
* Bastard Nation
Helps Protect the Rights of Intercountry Adoptees
* Bastard Nation's
Annual Financial Report by Donna Martz
* 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 2001: Vol 4, Issue 4
Print version should arrive in member mailboxes no later than March 21, 2001.
Articles:
* Scarlet Women, Bastards, and Happy Families:
Cinematic Representations of Adoption
Part 3 - The
Happy Family
by Marley Elizabeth Greiner
* "Even
One Baby's Life": Thoughts on the Babydump Laws by Leslie
La Rocco
Features:
* Letter
from the Editor by Damsel Plum
* Marley Lifts the
Veil of Sealed Records: Report from the 2nd
Annual Dave Thomas Center for Adoption Law Conference
* Legislative
Watch
Book Reviews:
* Adoption
Nation by Adam Pertman
Reviewed by Cynthia Bertrand Holub
* Adoption and Loss:
The Hidden Grief by Evelyn Burns Robinson
Reviewed by Mirah Riben
Verse:
* Ailanthus by Jonathan Marin
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