Off Our Backs (stylized in all lowercase; oob) was an American radical feminist periodical that ran from 1970 to 2008, making it the longest-running feminist periodical in the United States. Marilyn Salzman-Webb and Marlene Wicks were among Off Our Backs original founders, creating the periodical in Washington, D.C. as a response to what many felt was an underrepresentation of the women’s liberation movement in mainstream media. It was a self-sustaining periodical edited and published by a collective of women consisting mainly of volunteers who practiced consensus decision-making. Reporting on feminism related topics, the periodical transitioned from a monthly to a bi-monthly newspaper, and ultimately to a quarterly magazine before financial difficulties led to its termination in 2008.

Off Our Backs dealt with some controversy in 1984 during the creation of On Our Backs.

Archives of Off Our Backs are housed at Hornbake Library, University of Maryland.

Off Our Backs was founded in January 1970 by Marlene Wicks and Marilyn Salzman Webb in Washington, D.C. The original funding for the periodical came from $400 that was collected to start an anti-Vietnam War coffee house, with the idea for the paper stemming from frustration about the lack of news about the women’s liberation movement in mainstream media.

According to Marlene Wicks, Off Our Backs was originally created because while Marilyn Salzman Webb wrote for the Guardian, every time she submitted articles about women the articles would be edited to the point where they would become nonsensical.

They created the periodical with the intention for the paper to be by, for and about women, emphasizing that the paper was part of a movement. The name Off Our Backs was selected to reflect the dual nature of the women’s movement. Their mission statement was stated as “to provide news and information about women's lives and feminist activism; to educate the public about the status of women around the world; to serve as a forum for feminist ideas and theory; to be an information resource on feminist, women's, and lesbian culture; and to seek social justice and equality for women". The editorial statement from the first issue in February 1970 states that Off Our Backs "is a paper for all women who are fighting for the liberation of their lives and we hope it will grow and expand to meet the needs of women from all backgrounds and classes."

The first issue of Off Our Backs was published on February 27, 1970, consisting of a twelve-page tabloid first issue. The first issue included articles about the birth control pill, abortion rights, Korean women’s movements, and advocacy for women’s rights protests and oppositions. The first issue was written by a collective of 17 women, namely Marlene Wicks, Alison Sand, Roxanne Dunbar, Martha Atkins, Conni Bille Finnerty, Paula Goldsmid, Bonnie McFadden, Charlotte Bunch-Weeks, Sue Tod, Jessica Finney, Marilyn Salzman-Webb, Norma Allen Lesser, Anne Hutchinson, Rachel Scott, Coletta Reid, Regina Sigal, and Alice Wolfson.

Off Our Backs began publishing the journal monthly after its initial release, skipping one month of the year. The frequency of publication remained as 11 publications a year from 1970 until 2002. During that time, the Off Our Backs collective wrote about numerous local and international subjects revolving around feminist and women’s issues. During this time, the paper included several exposés, interviews and editorials. By the 1980s the collective published rare editorials and moved away from them to signed commentaries. Carol Anne Douglas (one of Off Our Backs' longest-writing members) explained their cease of editorials due to the fact that the collective "often disagreed on issues anyways".