The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Nefertiti Asanti
“…each month I embrace a kind of death within my womb that offers me a life I can live with.”
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Posts Tagged: reproductive health
Why an Anthology on Reproductive Freedom Is Needed Now
If Roe v. Wade were overturned, twenty-four states could immediately prohibit abortion.
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Bringing to Light: A Gathering and Tethering of Memory in Darla Himeles’s Cleave
Poems echo, rebound, and speak to one another.
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Subverting the Wild West: A Conversation with Anna North
Anna North discusses her new novel, OUTLAWED.
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A Quiet Epidemic: Jessica Zucker’s I Had A Miscarriage: A Memoir, A Movement
While the event of a miscarriage may only be a moment, the body and mind grieve long after.
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Claiming Space to Matter: Talking with Jennifer Berney
Jennifer Berney discusses her debut memoir, THE OTHER MOTHERS.
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This Week in (Reproductive Rights) Essays
Our storytelling, the sharing of our necessary truths, is needed now more than ever.
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The Language of What Happened to Us
“We knew things were wrong then,” she says, “but we didn’t know how, or why.”
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A Part of Me
Now my not wanting men to be front and center in my life capitalized sperm into a rare commodity. Empowered reproduction is largely a myth.
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Fresh Comics #4: Making Babies!
Aside from defecating or having sex, giving birth is one of the most common life experiences. Half of the world’s population is capable of doing it and every single one of us has been through it, even if we have no memory of it. But for all the comics out there that recount the tales […]
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