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.

Fall 1997: Vol I, Issue 3 (see cover)
What it Takes to Lobby issue
Articles:
* Adoption Reform Shocker! Confessions of a Weepy Birthmother by Mary Anne Cohen
* Gavriella Maxime Person, 1968-1997, by Denise Castellucci
* BN Visits ComFest, by Marley Greiner
* Reconciling Adopted and Biological Identities, by David Torsiello
* Another Victory for Adoptee Rights; Supreme Court Declines to Hear Doe v. Sundquist
Features:
* Onward, Bastard Soldiers!
What it Takes to Lobby: Reflections of a Bastard Activist by Carolyn Evaine Shaw ("Secrecy is Policy" graphic by Denise Castellucci)
* Secrets of the Universe, by Helen Hill
* Bastard Nation hits the Oscars by Ron Morgan (with photos)
* Bastards in Action, photos of Sealed Records Protest in Chicago,
July 17 1997
* Legislative Watch by Shea Grimm (DE, IL, NJ, OR, WA) w/sidebar on White-Out Provisionsy
Poetry:
* Compass, by Sarah Fry
Humor:
* Bastard Humor by Julie Ann Andres and Charles Filius

Winter 1998: Vol. I, Issue 4 (see cover)
Our Records, Our Rights! issue
Articles:
* Adoptees and Abortion by Jonathan Marin
* The Bastard Mission by The BN Executive Committee
* The History and Consequences of Sealing Adoption Records by Janine Baer
Special: Our Records, Our Rights Rally
* Bastards at the Bell by Marley Elizabeth Greiner (with photos & graphic by Denise Castellucci)
* Invocation by Father Tom Brosnan
* The Bastard Nation Moment by Damsel Plum (with graphic by Jules Andres)
Features:
* Book Review
Adoption, Identity and Kinship by Katarina Wegar, Reviewed by Ron Morgan
* An Open Letter to the Adoption Reform Movement by the BN Executive Committee
* Legislative Watch by Shea Grimm (MD, NJ, OR, PA, TN, WA)
* BN Regional Directors
* Bastard Nation Annual Financial Report 10/96 - 10/97
* Bastard Nation Hosts T.I.E.S. Fundraiser
Poetry:
Shakespeare on Bastardy from King Lear
Isaac Solomon Builder by Paul Turner
Humor:
* A Bastard in the Family
* Is it Mine? comic strip by Charles Filius

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