I n the early 1970s Peggy Rom- berg, CEO of the Women Health and Family Planning Association of Texas, heard about women…
A bortion is the most commonly performed surgery in the United States—43 percent of women will terminate an unwanted pregnancy before age…
I f you watch television, chances are you’ve seen ads for Seasonale, a new oral contraceptive that allows women to have four…
V anessa Weeks counts herself among the lucky ones. The Roe v. Wade decision had been handed down six months earlier, in…
A week after Haley Barbour took office as governor of Mississippi in January 2004, he promised to “end the tragedy of abortion”…
T he scariest reading you’re likely to do this year won’t come from Stephen King. Instead, this season’s creepiest spine-tingler derives from…
D r. Kimber Haddix McKay, an anthropologist who teaches Human Sexuality at the University of Montana-Missoula, thought it would be a good…
T he Barna Research Group (BRG), a 20-year-old Southern California-based market research company “dedicated to assisting God’s people to do the work…
L ike many who participated in the April 25 March for Women’s Lives, nurse Joyce Amit marched in memory of women she…
T o the surprise of just about everyone, HB 1191, a South Dakota bill challenging the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v.…
All the latest from Z, directly to your inbox.
Institute for Social and Cultural Communications, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit.
Our EIN# is #22-2959506. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law.
We do not accept funding from advertising or corporate sponsors.Ā We rely on donors like you to do our work.
We’re glad you keep coming back. If Z’s work has informed, challenged, or inspired you, that’s no accident: there are no paywalls, no ads, and no billionaire owners here, and there never will be. Independent media survives because readers choose to support it.
Billionaires fund their own media. We fund ours. Help us reach 1,000 sustaining donors:
Sustainers at $9/month or more receive the digital Z Magazine.
Already a sustainer? Click here and we won’t ask again. Thank you!
Your reading count is stored only in your browser and is never sent to us.Sound is muted by default.Ā Tap š for the full experience
Critical Action is a longtime friend of Z and a music and storytelling project grounded in liberation, solidarity, and resistance to authoritarian power. Through music, narrative, and multimedia, the project engages the same political realities and movement traditions that guide and motivate Zās work.
If this project resonates with you, you can learn more about it and find ways to support the work using the link below.
It is disappearing because platforms reward speed, outrage, and algorithmic visibility over thoughtful analysis.
More than 100,000 people read Z every month, free of paywalls, ads, and billionaire owners. It takes fewer than 1 in 100 of them to fund all of it: 1,000 donors who keep Z independent, for everyone, and build what comes next.
Sustainers at $9/month or more receive the digital Z Magazine.
Join the Z Community ā receive event invites, announcements, a Weekly Digest, and opportunities to engage.
