For the MEN

MEN (band)

MEN is a Brooklyn-based band and art/performance collective that focuses on the energy of live performance and the radical potential of dance music...

 song, go to Off Our Backs (song)

Off Our Backs (song)

"Off Our Backs" is the second pre-album-release single to later appear on MEN's debut album Talk About Body. It was released on November 9, 2010, available on 7" vinyl, 12" vinyl and CD single/EP...

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off our backs (sometimes referred to by its initials, oob) is a radical feminist

Radical feminism

Radical feminism is a current theoretical perspective within feminism that focuses on the theory of patriarchy as a system of power that organizes society into a complex of relationships based on an assumption that "male supremacy" oppresses women...

 periodical published in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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. It has been published continuously since it was founded in February 1970, making it the longest-running feminist periodical currently published in the United States

United States

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off our backs began as a twelve-page tabloid, with the first issue published on February 27, 1970. It is currently published as a bimonthly magazine

Magazine

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Since its founding, off our backs has been edited and published by a collective

Collective

A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together on a specific project to achieve a common objective...

 of women, using consensus decision-making

Consensus decision-making

Consensus decision-making is a group decision making process that seeks the consent, not necessarily the agreement, of participants and the resolution of objections. Consensus is defined by Merriam-Webster as, first, general agreement, and second, group solidarity of belief or sentiment. It has its...

 for all decisions. Marilyn Webb, Heidi Steffens, Marlene Wicks, Colette Reid, and Norma Lesser formed the original off our backs collective (Brownmiller 74). Current members are Carol Anne Douglas, Amaya Roberson, Sherri Whatley, Laura Butterbaugh, Farar Elliott, Angie Manzano, Karla Mantilla, Jennie Ruby, Jenn Smith, and Angie Young.

According to the "off our backs" website, publication has ceased as of 2008.

See also

• On Our Backs
  On Our Backs
  On Our Backs was the first women-run erotica magazine and the first magazine to feature lesbian erotica for a lesbian audience in the United States....
  
  , a lesbian pornographic magazine. The title is a parody of off our backs, which published many articles by anti-pornography radical feminists.
• List of Lesbian Periodicals, Journals and Magazines, Past and Present