Anna Clark's writing has appeared in The American Prospect, Utne Reader, AlterNet, Hobart, Writers' Journal, Bitch Magazine, Religion Dispatches, Common Dreams, The Women's International Perspective, Women's eNews, ColorLines, RH Reality Check, The Millions, make/shift, and BloodLotus, among other publications. She is the editor of the literary and social justice website, Isak (www.isak.typepad.com), and she contributes video book reviews to The Collagist, a literary magazine.
Anna is a writing mentor through the Linkage program in the Prison Creative Arts Project. She is also the Chief Developmental Editor with The Imagine Company, a Kenyan organization that marries media and social entrepreneurship. Anna is a graduate of the University of Michigan's Residential College and Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Detroit, Michigan.
The presidential candidates have been challenged with the same question again and again: In our unprecedented economic crisis, what programs or services will you cut? If they cut family planning services, other reproductive health costs are sure to spiral leaving “Jane the plumber” without the critical health services she needs.
Ready to raise a family? Parents and parents-to-be are facing a brutal economic moment and longstanding workplace and government policies that don’t support them in building their families. What solutions do our presidential candidates offer?
If Rick Warren were able to convey the diversity among evangelicals at the upcoming Saddleback Civil Forum, maybe we’ll actually get some honest conversation.
Recent opposition from the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists frustrates efforts of midwifery advocates to ensure safe and available home births for pregnant women who want them.
One in three women has a hysterectomy before her sixtieth birthday. Is such major surgery medically necessary for all those women? And if not, how did this procedure become commonplace?
A lot of people are working to alert the world to the long-simmering crisis of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But in a global context where the concerns of both African nations and women are hardly centered in media and government, how can the DRC’s story be told to incite compassion in the massive proportions necessary for change?
While not one national anti-choice organization supports contraception or science-based sexuality education, some individuals who oppose legal abortion are making the connections on their own: birth control and education reduce the rate of unintended pregnancy and abortions.
Many pro-choice Americans opposed abortion at some point in their lives. Anna Clark explores her own journey and shares the stories of others whose beliefs have shifted over time.
When you can’t count on the government, schools, or dubiously funded clinics for medically accurate and comprehensive sex education, you can still count on Judy Blume.
