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Thanks to the talents of Newsletter Editor Al Fields, ARC publishes a newsletter on a normal schedule of three to four issues per year. We have published over 24 issues to date. (The Internet edition was already published in March 2005.) We proudly maintain our status as the only genital integrity publication limited to movement members and our supporters, creating a unique safety that helps promote the quality and breadth of our contributions. The contents include updates on events in the struggle to protect genital integrity through legal and non-legal means, feature articles by outside writers, news updates, bulletins on our activities, book reviews, press releases, and as many photographs as we can fit.

Recent issues have included: reports on the 2003 Florida and 2004 Maine Medicaid victories, a book-length excerpt by Suzanne Arms placing genital integrity in a broad societal and medical and birth context, a superb report by Georgeanne Chapin on the Padua symposium, the prize-winning essay in the NOCIRC Essay Contest, an article by Adam Zeldis about his struggles to confront his parents about his circumcision and to decide whether to bring a lawsuit, an article by Botswanan Moruntshi Kemorwale about male and female genital cutting in his country, a piece about female genital cutting by dual activist Marianne Sarkis, a trio of autobiographical activist self-introductions by MGMbill.org founder Matthew Hess, LIFE founder Michael Samson, and Students for Genital Integrity mastermind Gregory Dervin, a frank intactivist strategy discussion by someone in a position to know what works as an American Academy of Pediatrics member pediatrician, a Washington update by DOC's activist lawyer John Geisheker, and a gripping firsthand story about the Cuba Sexology conference by Van Lewis, including tales of dancing with Fidel Castro's relatives. We have introduced new voices such as African perspectives, students such as Adam Zeldis and Greg Dervin, and anti-FGC activists.

We are pleased to report that the leading content provider to libraries and universities, ProQuest, accepted our newsletter for distribution.