From the Executive Director's Message:

This issue is packed with almost more good material than I can list: 1) Exclusive to the ARC Newsletter, Attorney and Eminent Blogger Rebecca Wald contributes her excellent article, “Beyond the Bris: Rounding Out Its First year”; 2) Miriam Pollack's superlative, heartfelt article originally presented at the 2010 Berkeley Symposium, “Circumcision: Gender, Identity, and Power”; 3) Longtime activist Dan Strandjord gives us an ARC exclusive—a bird's eye view of his unique brand of activism; 4) An intriguing piece by maverick Carl Augustsson on intactivism and political conservatism; 5) A story and photo montage from the August-September 2011 Genital Autonomy conference held at England's University of Keele at which I presented my paper, “Protecting all from genital cutting - law, human rights and medicalization,”; 6) Analysis by ARC Legal Analyst Peter Adler of the San Francisco ballot initiative and subsequent events including the new Califonia law; 7) Robert O'Connor reports on Boston's American Academy of Pediatrics conference; 8) our own Jonathan Friedman explains why “Circumcision is No Cure for HIV”; 9) A photo report on a recent conference organized at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas by youthful scholar and intactivist Travis Wisdom; 10) Carl Augustsson strikes again with a story and photos pertaining to Genital Integrity Awareness Week 2011; 11) a reprint of supporter Julie Van Orden's excellent Salt Lake City Tribune Op-Ed piece, “Abolish the 'Unkind Cut'”; 12) An announcement of the passing of Canadian activist John Sawkey, a close collaborator of mine in my early years in the movement; 10) News reports on Colorado's cessation of Medicaid funding for circumcision; 13) ARC's letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association over their publication of a biased and misleading article by Tobian and Gray on “The Medical Benefits of Male Circumcision”; 14) Two book reviews including a review of longtime anti-FGC activist Soraya Mire's remarkable new memoir; 15) Blog reprints including one on “Why Circumcision is a Feminist Issue”; and 16) News reports.

Finally, the newsletter also includes an extensive tribute to the late, great activist Van Lewis, including remembrances of Van by a host of eminent activists, the text of the memorial speech I delivered at the memorial service held in Tallahassee in June 2011, photographs dating back to his first action with brother Ben Lewis in 1970, and more.

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