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Editor of Network, the Canadian Womens Health Network magazine, 2002-present

 
- Network, Fall 2005
   
- feature articles include: 'HIV/AIDS on rise for Canadian women', 'Alarming rates of
     HIV/AIDS for Canada's Aboriginal women', 'The silent voices of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
     in Canada: African and Caribbean women in Toronto', 'Improving access to emergency
     contraception', 'Canada needs a health and healing strategy for First Nations, Inuit and
     Métis women', and much more!


- Network, Summer/Fall 2004
   
- feature articles include:
: Turn up the heat: Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers
    
demands safe and healthy working environments, Coming out about lesbians and
     cancer, Canadas health system failing women in rural and remote regions, C-section
     on demand not just a matter of choice, and more!


- Network, Spring 2004
    
- feature articles include: Compassionate care benefits not compassionate enough,
       Womens cycles up for sale, Life after breast cancer, Reproductive choice not a
       reality in rural and remote regions, Manufacturing addiction, and much more. 



- Network, Fall 2003
     - feature articles include: 'Midwifery in Canada continues to face challenges', 'Prenatal
      Technologies may not offer reproductive choice
', 'Degree of women's homelessness
      underestimated, study finds
', 'Health complications from breast implant surgery
      common
' and much more.  

 
- Network, Winter 2003
   
- feature articles include: 'Reclaiming Menopause: Another look at HRT and the 
      medicalization of women's bodies
', 'Reading Romanow on women's health', 'Building
      bridges across difference and disability'
, 'Caring for the dying in hospital' and more of
      what's hot in women's health. 


Editor of A Friend Indeed, newsletter for women in menopause and midlife, 2001-2003

Editorial Board Member, The May Anthologies, prose and poetry journal for Cambridge and Oxford
Universities, 1993-1996.
                                                                                                           
BOOK REVIEWS & REVIEW ESSAYS
 
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The Mother of All Women's Health Guides, Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves,
           in The Globe and Mail, Books Section: May 28, 2005: D11.

Suzanne Haneef: A History of the Prophets of Islam
          
in Publishers Weekly, March 2002.

Fran Manushkin: In Praise of Jewish Women
          
in Publishers Weekly, September 17, 2001: S22.

Sisters to Us All, Aging with Grace and For the Love of God
           in The Ottawa Citizen August 5, 2001: C11.

Fire Starter: An Interview with Director Deepa Mehta,
           BUST magazine, No. 17, Spring 2001: 94.

The Stone Carvers, Jane Urquarts, The Stone Carvers
           in The Ottawa Citizen April 8, 2001: cover and C13-C14.

Dropped Threads, Carol Shields, Dropped Threads
           - in The Ottawa Citizen, February 25, 2001: cover and C13.

Burn, Wife, Burn!, Joan Hoff and Marion Yeates, The Coopers Wife is Missing, and Angela
Bourkes The Burning of Bridget Cleary,
           -  in The Globe and Mail, Saturday December 23, 2000: D7.

The Empire Strikes Back, Zadie Smiths White Teeth
           -  in
The Womens Review of Books,  Volume XVIII, No. 1 (October 2000): pp. Cover and 19-20.

Zadie Smith: An Interview, White Teeth
           in The Globe and Mail, May 27, 2000: D16-17.

Mother Love, Sandra Blaffer Hrdys, Mother Nature
          
-  in The Globe and Mail, Saturday January 22, 2000: pp. Cover and D2-D3.

The Curse,
by Karen Houppert
           -  in
The Womens Review of Books, Volume XVI, No. 11  (August 1999).

Everything you Always Wanted to Know.  Period, Karen Houpperts The Curse
          
in The Globe and Mail, Saturday June 26, 1999: D11.

Regular on-going book reviews for BUST magazine, 2000-present.
                                                                                                           
OPINION EDITORIALS  TOP

Haven't we learned our lesson yet? Periods are not a curse, Globe and Mail, November 12, 2005: F9.

Time for Canada to turn to 'Plan B': Ottawa urged to allow women unfettered access to the 'morning after' pill, with N. Jane Pepino and Jennifer Howard, Toronto Star, March 31, 2005: A27.

Register breast implants, with Ann Pederson, Globe and Mail, March 30, 2004: A13.

Les prestations de compassion ne tinnent pas compte de la ralit, with Pat Armstrong, Le Droit, March 3, 2004: Forum, p.13.

Compassionate Care Program Not Compassionate Enough, with Pat Armstrong, Halifax Chronicle Herald, February 7, 2004; reprinted in Kitchener-Waterloo Record (02/07/2004: A15); and the Lethbridge Herald (02/06/2004: A9).

qui la faute?  Les avertissements concernant les effets graves des traitements hormonaux
sur la sant des femmes dge mr ont t plus que nombreux,
La Presse samedi 3, aot 2002:
A15.


The Medicalization of Menopause, Halifax Herald, Thursday, August 1, 2002. Reprinted in Network
 magazine (Winter 2003).  Reprinted in Spanish in Revista Mujer Salud (Latin America; July-September
 2002).  Summary reprinted in Spanish in La Jornada (Mexico) August 3, 2003 (Rosa Rojas). 


Are Periods Pass?, Herizons, Winter 2001 (14, 3): 24-27.

Pregnancy In/Out of Fashion, The Calgary Herald, Friday, January 22, 1999: D6.

Canada Loses Freedom of Speech, The Calgary Herald, Saturday December 5, 1998: D3.

The Myth of American Individualism, The Calgary Herald, Wednesday, November 18, 1998: A17.

American Men United in Saying They're Sorry, The Toronto Star, August 26, 1998: A15.

What Does It Take to Be a Man?: The Age of Apology, The Chicago Tribune, Friday, August 21,
1998: A27. 
                                                                                                           
ARTICLES  TOP

--  Regular womens health column in Herizons magazine, Body Wise, 2002-2003.

--  Regular womens health articles in Taloua magazine (Francophone), Sant, 2002-2003.

                                                                                                            --  and many more!

                                                                                                           
POSTERS  TOP


 - Women and Health Protection poster (English and French),
    Direct-to-consumer-advertisements of prescription drugs I, April 2004.
   Concept by Kathleen O'Grady.  Design by Folio.  Copyright, Kathleen O'Grady. 
   Published in FishPiss Vol.3, No.1 (2004), pp. 13, 22.  Published in Herizons (Summer
   2004).  Also adopted by the Canadian Womens Health Network.  Also reprinted by the
   Canadian Health Coalition.
 


  - Women and Health Protection poster (English and French),
    Direct-to-consumer-advertisements of prescription drugs II, April 2004.
   
Concept by Kathleen O'Grady.  Design by Folio.  Illustration by Pierre-Paul Pariseau.
   
Copyright, Kathleen O'Grady. Published in FishPiss Vol.3, No.1 (2004), pp. 13, 22.  Also
    adopted by the Canadian Womens Health Network.
 


 - Canadian Womens Health Network poster (English and French), Blood Money
   
April 2004. Concept by Kathleen O'Grady.  Design by Folio.  Photo by Christina Gapic
   Copyright, Kathleen O'Grady. Also adopted by the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.
  
Included in the documentary, Period: The end of menstruation? by Giovanna Chesler (g6
   pictures).



 - Canadian Womens Health Network poster (English and French), Violence in the
   Family
, April 2004. Concept by Kathleen O'Grady.  Design by Folio.  Illustration by
   Pierre-Paul Pariseau. Copyright, Kathleen O'Grady.
Also adopted by Family Abuse
   Prevention.


   
 - 
Canadian Womens Health Network poster (English and French), Homecare in 
    Crisis
, April 2004.  Concept by Kathleen OGrady.  Design by Folio.
   
Illustration by
Pierre-Paul Pariseau. Copyright, Kathleen OGrady.  


  - Womens Health Bureau, Health Canada poster (English and French), for the
    Womens Health Contribution Program, January 2003. Content by Kathleen O'Grady
    with the Women's Health Bureau.  Design by Folio.  Copyright, Women's Health
    Bureau, Health Canada.


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