“【Introduction】Join Salvage and Haymarket Books for this episode of Salvage Live featuring Sophie Lewis, Anne Rumberger, and Rosie Warren.”◆《Human Echoes》
“【Description】Human Echoes is a Glasgow School of Art staff research project that seeks to give voice to the lived experience of women in Glasgow who received obstetric ultrasound scans in the 1960s, when Glasgow led the world in its development. This project aims to shine a light on the stories of the women who were themselves pioneers of ultrasound.”
“【Description】Contraception was the subject of intense controversy in twentieth-century Ireland. Banned in 1935 and stigmatised by the Catholic Church, it was the focus of some of the most polarised debates before and after its legalisation in 1979. This is the first comprehensive, dedicated history of contraception in Ireland from the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the 1990s. Drawing on the experiences of Irish citizens through a wide range of archival sources and oral history, Laura Kelly provides insights into the lived experiences of those negotiating family planning, alongside the memories of activists who campaigned for and against legalisation. She highlights the influence of the Catholic Church's teachings and legal structures on Irish life showing how, for many, sex and contraception were obscured by shame. Yet, in spite of these constraints, many Irish women and men showed resistance in accessing contraceptive methods.”◆Browne, Victoria, 2022, Pregnancy Without Birth: A Feminist Philosophy of Miscarriage, London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ＊20221006
“【Description】Pregnancy is so thoroughly entangled with birth and babies in the popular imagination that a pregnancy which ends in miscarriage consistently appears as a failure or a waste of time ― indeed, as not proper to pregnancy at all. But in this compelling book, Victoria Browne argues that reflection on miscarriage actually deepens and expands our understanding of pregnancy, forcing us to consider what pregnancy can amount to besides the production of a child.”
“【Caption】A visceral novel about Mary Shelley, the violence of procreation and our overheating planet”◇Rogers, Jude, 2023, "[Review] Matrescence by Lucy Jones Review: Smashing Motherhood Myths", Guardian, June 20, 2023, (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/20/matrescence-on-metamorphosis-pregnancy-childbirth-motherhood-by-lucy-jones-review-smashing-motherhood-myths).
“【Caption】A thrilling examination of what it means to become a mother challenges assumptions in bravura fashion”◇Cosslett, Rhiannon Lucy, 2023, "No Woman Should Have to Give Birth Alone. Pregnant Asylum Seekers Need Our Support", Guardian, May 5, 2023, (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/05/woman-give-birth-alone-pregnant-asylum-seekers).
“【Caption】Stories of women supporting one another in the community are heartening, but more volunteer birth partners are needed”◇Crosby Medlicott, Lauren, 2023, "The Government Is Refusing to Protect Pregnant Asylum Seekers ‐ Here's How to Take a Stand", Stylist, April 27, 2023, (https://www.stylist.co.uk/news/government-illegal-migration-bill-pregnant-women-asylum-seekers/783543).
“【Caption】The government’s Illegal Migration Bill doesn’t include protections from detention for pregnant women. ”◇Jones, Layla A., 2022, "When the Water Breaks", Philadelphia Inquirer, July 12, 2022, (https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/more-perfect-union-maternal-morbidity-philadelphia-medicine-history-racism-20220712.html).
“【Caption】America’s maternal mortality crisis traces back to Philadelphia, home to the nation’s first delivery wards. From the start, Black people received unequal treatment and were exploited for science.”◇Thomas, Maria ed., 2021, Abortion Decriminalization Is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Policing and Criminalization: How Our Movements Can Organize in Solidarity with Each Other, Interrupting Criminalization, (https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/decriminalize-abortion).
“The expanding surveillance and criminalization of mutual aid, self-managed care, and bodily autonomy, and the growing attempts to criminalize pregnant people, parents, and health care providers have far-reaching ramifications beyond abortion criminalization that require us to join together to collectively resist!”◇Sherman, Carter, 2021, "The Supreme Court Is Poised to Destroy Abortion Rights. Here's What's Next", Vice, December 3, 2021, (https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdd9q/the-supreme-court-is-poised-to-destroy-abortion-rights-heres-whats-next).
“【Caption】One expert thinks there is a “1 million percent” chance that the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.”◇Sherman, Carter, 2021, "The Texas Abortion Ban Isn't Staying in Texas", Vice, November 2, 2021, (https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dgxx/texas-abortion-ban-affecting-whole-country).
“【Caption】More than 55,000 people got abortions in Texas last year. Now, patients are fleeing to places as far away as Boulder and Seattle.”◇Sherman, Carter, 2021, "Here's What It's Like to Flee Texas and Drive 200 Miles for an Abortion", Vice, October 14, 2021, (https://www.vice.com/en/article/k784ke/heres-what-its-like-to-flee-texas-and-drive-200-miles-for-an-abortion).
“【Caption】After being turned away from a Texas clinic, a 26-year-old mother went to Oklahoma for an abortion. We went with her.”◇Levine, Judith, 2021, "Abortion Is a Public Good", Boston Review, October 6, 2021, (https://bostonreview.net/articles/abortion-is-a-public-good/).
“【Caption】The right to reproductive health and agency is a compelling state interest.”◇Gago, Verónica, 2020, "On the Precipice of Decision: The Struggle for Abortion Rights in Argentina", Verso Blog, December 29, 2020, (https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4958-on-the-precipice-of-decision-the-struggle-for-abortion-rights-in-argentina).
“【Caption】As Argentina's upper house prepares for its historic vote on abortion rights, Verónica Gago, our leading theorist of the Feminist International, discusses how the struggle around abortion has opened up the central question of 'political decision' for those typically excluded from politics. ”
“An indispensable guide to building a fighting feminist movement for reproductive freedom”◇Lewis, Sophie, 2019, "Labor Does You", New Inquiry, May 22, 2019, (https://thenewinquiry.com/labor-does-you/).
“【Caption】What if we really felt the politics of uterine work to be comparable to other labors?”／“As Marxists, it would make sense to work from this interpenetrative knot as an image of labor. It could serve as the model in relation to which other forms of earthly labor, when we investigate them, may or may not differ. In other words: Rather than seek to shoehorn pregnancy into the falsely simple categories we have to delimit productive work, what if we faced up to the possibility that a far, far wider range of social labors than we might previously have thought are fundamentally akin to gestatedness, gestatingness, marriage, abortion? What if we really felt the politics of uterine work to be comparable to other labors? What strikes, riots, and occupations would this make possible?”◇Gago, Verónica, 2018, "They Are Afraid of Us", Viewpoint Magazine, August 13, 2018, (https://viewpointmag.com/2018/08/13/they-are-afraid-of-us/).
“The interesting thing about the debate during these weeks was the enormous number of women from shantytowns and popular neighborhoods speaking out and sharing their experiences of having clandestine abortions. This was a political leap in the discussion in relation to previous years, since the mass debate took place in class-based terms, demonstrating that there is a differentiated price to the criminalization of abortion. That is, the transversality of the feminist politicization allowed for expanding it into spaces and sites where it had not reached previously even if abortions were a massive reality.”
“【Introduction】On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we talk with both long-time anarchist organizer Suzy Subways and historian Spencer Beswick about how anarchists in the 1990s organized in the face of a deadly far-Right attack on abortion access across the so-called United States.”
“【Caption】THE battle for buffer zones is not the first time Scottish women have been at the forefront of the fight to protect reproductive rights.”／“【Exordium】Digging through newspaper clippings, newsletters and various handwritten documents gathered from pro-choice campaigners at the Glasgow Women’s Library one thing became quickly clear ― there was a distinctive Scottish approach to the issue in the early 1980s after repeated attempts were made to restrict abortion laws.”
“【Caption】She was 15 when she got an illegal abortion in a dirty Detroit warehouse. Now, she’s terrified others will experience something similar.”◇Sherman, Carter, "I Was in an Underground Abortion Network Before Roe v. Wade", Vice, January 20, 2022, (https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kb4ma/abortion_underground_roe_v_wade).
“【Caption】In the 1960s and ’70s, a Chicago group known as “Jane” helped tens of thousands of women get abortions.”