Abortion Book Club 📚

every month, we read & discuss abortion-related fiction. run by @rishie_ & @JoeStrongDemog 📖on hiatus for a bit. we’ll be back shortly.

[Abortion Book Club 📚 @AbortionBooks_]

Hi friends. We’ve been a bit quiet this year - sorry! @JoeStrongDemog & @rishie_ have been grappling with a lot this first half of the year & trying to stay afloat. Our ‘no pressure’ extends to us too :)

Please bear with us, we’ll be back up and running shortly!

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TONIGHT, with our fave @JoeStrongDemog <3
Turn up for abortion poetry & chats!

[Silver Press 🌙 @Silver_Press_]

ABORTION! POETRY!
WRITING FOR REPRO RIGHTS
w/ @ALoulli @AbortionBooks_ Holly Pester & Alice Spawls

@vagina_museum tmrw Thurs 11, cu there

[JWest @janewest73]

@AbortionBooks_ This is good one

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And we’re doing this on the 11th of July! Our very own @JoeStrongDemog will be there. You know it’s going to be 🔥

See you there, abortion nerds!

[Silver Press 🌙 @Silver_Press_]

❤️‍🔥Discussion chaired by the amazing @AbortionBooks_, who'll also be sharing a reading list ❤️‍🔥

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We’ve been doing some cool stuff lately, including:

[Doctors for Choice UK @DrsforChoice_UK]

Session #7 What’s in an abortion? zine making workshop

Our final session of the conference is hosted by @JoeStrongDemog and @rishie_ from @AbortionBooks_ encouraging conference delegates to make their own abortion zine!

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@marionwish @EBee40 @kagisokeo Yes! Such a fantastic book!

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@maraclarke Yes, we are! We’re just taking a bit of a break to get on top of … *gestures*

thanks for the recco!

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Check out more books - including from around the world and in translation- on our list: https://t.co/9z0SyE8Rst (we need to update for 2024)

[Safe Abortion Action Fund @SAAFfund]

"A list of novels that will take you into the worlds of people having abortions..." 📚

https://t.co/Du9gBDMG0Y cc @AbortionBooks_
@ELLEmagazine @RBraceySherman @byreginamahone

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Our next book is Joan Didion’s Plat It As It Lays, credited with defining modern American fiction. It follows Maria Weyth, a fading Hollywood actress and her life…including some interesting temporal work of flashbacks & flash forwards.

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SEE YOU THERE, GANG!

[Silver Press 🌙 @Silver_Press_]

Tomorrow! Join us for AFTER SEX, the first in a series of talks at@ICALondon, examining freedom through the lenses of collective liberation, bodily autonomy, reproductive justice.

Fri 24 Nov from 7 – 10pm
🦋 Tickets https://t.co/lUraZtxgCZ

[Silver Press 🌙 @Silver_Press_]

AFTER SEX ON SCREEN
1 December @ICALondon
Curated by @Such_Mayer @clubdesfemmes

This programme of short films explores the long history of the feminist struggle for reproductive freedom, showing abortion as part of daily life.

https://t.co/BsiSuMorvB

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Check out this great @Silver_Press_ book launch (“After Sex”) coming up at the @ICALondon next week!

We love a repro event that features abortion art (ty Viva Ruiz - https://t.co/d7jRstHoy5!)

[Silver Press 🌙 @Silver_Press_]

AFTER SEX explores why reproductive justice & bodily autonomy remain essential to collective freedoms

Alice Spawls @LRB @LRBbookshop & @jacobinoire are joined by @sianushka @versobooks, Beth Steel & @sexeducation's Laurie Nunn

@ICALondon, 24 November
https://t.co/7Mb8lHL9Al

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We’re reading Tomi Obaro’s Dele Weds Destiny for our next book club session! Following the lives of three friends from college to middle age, this debut novel has been lauded for a “[..] bravura abortion scene” [NYT Review of Books, ’22]

Looking forward to chats, abortion nerds!

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We’ve got six in-person tickets left - come hang out, #abortion nerds! Bring a friend- there’ll be snacks & time to hang out!

https://t.co/Nc7TTDjKSd

[Nic Murray @nic__murray]

NEW: Number of abortions for women in prison has fallen by 75% in two years. With potential barriers to healthcare experts say are “deeply concerning”

My report for @openDemocracy:
https://t.co/Hc8OR9HQXr

[Abortion Book Club 📚 @AbortionBooks_]

We’ve spent 3 years reading #abortion fiction & exploring depictions of abortion - people, procedures, pills […]

Come to our (in person+online) event, part of @ESRC #FestivalOfSocialScience, chat abortions, & produce a collective, stigma-busting ‘zine.
https://t.co/eesuA154IR?

[Doctors for Choice UK @DrsforChoice_UK]

Consider joining @AbortionBooks_ , the one and only abortion book club, to read and discuss abortion with other passionate people! #AbortionIsNormal

[Mara Clarke @maraclarke]

Final days! Please consider a monthly donation to @SupportAbort. Any amount, any currency, all appreciated.

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And another by Deborah GarfinkleL https://t.co/gFOxvkfTYP

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Our next book is Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenström (trans. JM Coetzee).

Translated from Afrikaans, the book follows the story of a young slave girl who has taken refuge in the hollow of a baobab tree. We piece together her life story through her reflections 1/

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Here’s another review of the book (spoilers, spoilers) by Michelle Kyoko Crowson:

https://t.co/8SC3poKZGY

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