“To speak for yourself then means risking the rebuff — on some occasions, perhaps, once and for all — of those for whom you have claimed to be speaking; and…
Contemporaries Essays
Producing Abortion Epistemologies: Knowledge in / as Community
Looking at my nightstand, I noticed Tylenol and a chocolate bar and chuckled to myself. The juxtaposition of the objects seemed so obvious they bordered on cliché. If you know,…
In a State of Expectancy: Writing Against the Abortion Plot
Women have said again and again “This body is my body!” and they have reason to feel angry, reason to feel that it has been like shouting into the wind….
Abortion After All: A Dialogue on Reproductive Justice in a Post-Dobbs World
Heather Latimer, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Karen Weingarten, Associate Professor, Queens College, City University of New York We’ve been discussing abortion politics for more than ten years….
Three Vasectomies, or, What is an Abortion Story?
2004: Vasectomy #2 In a creative writing workshop in college, I wrote an essay about being groomed by one of my high school teachers. (Maybe you did, too. It is…
Introduction: Abortion Now, Abortion Forever
“Abortions will not let you forget.” The opening line of Gwendolyn Brooks’s famous poem “the mother” compels its reader to recognize and remember the fact of abortions now, in the…
“Fuck It Let’s Do it, Despite the Odds” — A Very Eclectic Survey and Some Thoughts on Contemporary Magazines
I’m tired. (Without formality, wouldn’t every academic article begin like this?) Because of my tiredness, which is both physical and conceptual, I devised a ruse to get me out of…
Interview with Susan Sherman
Introduction IKON was founded with the goal of synthesis, and part of its lasting value lies in the unique ways in which it accomplished that goal — and kept changing….