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.

Spring 2001: "Collaboration and Mobilization" issue
Print version should arrive in member mailboxes no later than June 21, 2001.

Articles:

Collaboration and Mobilization: Report from the Grassroots Use of the Internet Conference, Yale University Law School, 2001 By Marley Elizabeth Greiner

Features:

Letter from the Editor: Volunteer for Adoptee Rights Days 2001
A Bibliography of Journal Articles Dealing with the Subject of Sealed Birth and Adoption Records
Compiled by Christopher K. Phillippo
Bastard Nation Announces New Legislative Chair
Quotes to Consider on adoptee rights from Judge Wade S. Weatherford, Jr., Joanne W. Small and Father Thomas Brosnan
Legislative Watch

Book Reviews:

Suddenly Goyish, Suddenly Bastard: Three Books on Confused Identity, Split Loyalty and the Jewish Mystique
Suddenly Jewish by Barbara Kessel
Hidden Children by Andre Stein
Half-Jewish by Daniel Klein and Frejke Vuist
Reviewed by Damsel Plum

Verse:

Oregon by Penny Callan Patridge

Video Review:

Flirting With Disaster reviewed by Damsel Plum

Humor:

* "Wrong Tummy"jokes
* RebelYelp Tours present The Cruise of Denial
* Moses: Leading the oppressed Israelites across the Red Sea (news parody)
* BirthMother's Day card from Badger Hill Publishing

Summer 2001: The Spectrum Issue
Print version should arrive in member mailboxes no later than September 21, 2001.

Articles:

Two Sides of Reunion:
* The BirthMother as Professional Victim
By B.G. Bower aka Anomia Bogus
* My Happy Reunion
by Anne Hudspeth

The Adoptee Spirit:
* Triumph Over Shame by Eric David
* Childfree and Adoptee by Noelle Gresham

Features:

Letter from the Editor
* The Spectrum: Personal stories from adoptees.
Contributors: Robert Alberti, Anne Hayden, Fr. John Sweeley, Steve Swanson, Marcy Wineman Axness, Peter Kristian Mose
* Chapter 2: One Adoption, Two Stories by Charles Filius
* Photos from Adoptee Rights Days 2001
* Legislative Watch

Book Reviews:

Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan by Elizabeth Kim
Reviewed by Damsel Plum

Verse:

* 9 Months by C. Hunter Kinsey
* Lighting by Steve Swanson
* The Way it Was by Casey Porter

Humor:

* The Baby Supermarket & Limerick by Diane Carlin

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