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/Spring 2002 issue
Print version should arrive in member mailboxes no later than April 21, 2002.

Articles:

* Power in the Name: An Almost-Tour of the Edna Gladney Adoption Museum, by Marlena Villers
* True Tales of Conditional Love from Bastard Nation's True Tales of Revolting Reunions, by Susan Damascene

Features:

* Letter from the Editor: from Damsel Plum
* Letter To the Editor: from Mirah Riben
* Bastard Nation Adopts New Bylaws
* Rape, Relinquishment and Closed Records by Sheila Ganz
* Legislative Watch
* Baby Dump Legislation Update

Performance Review:

* The English American by Alison Larkin, reviewed by Charles Filius

Humor:

* A Conversation With My Dog by Dave Sipley
* Biomom as Superwoman...a theory by Another Adoptee
* Judiciary Committee Sketchbook by Charles Filius

Summer/Fall 2002:

Articles:

* California Wants to Lock Up a Century of American History!
by Anita Field
* Want To Adopt? Check this Box, by Charles Filius

Features:

* Letter from the Executive Chair, by Marley Greiner
* Bastards on the Bayou!, by Cyn Holub and Marlena Villers
* Premiere of "Unlocking the Heart of Adoption" by Shelia Ganz
* Bastard Nation Remembers Jean Paton and Gavriela Person
* Legislative Watch
* Safe Haven Update, by Marley Greiner
* Fiscal Notes from Donna Martz

Humor:

* Our Bastard Calendar
* The Charles Filius Limerick Contest
* Press Release

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