They’re Coming for Black Womxn Too: The Strategically Disturbing Assault on Womxn’s Bodies Written by Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina The Alabama senate passed one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the United States, HB314 “The Human Life Protection Act.”...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue I thought of it as punishment, had I been walking the right path I wouldn’t be in this predicament. I questioned God’s use of me and my body. That was only my second mistake in the story. My first was...
Meat is Metaphor, Life is Metaphor Written by Madison Snider Language can only proximate our realities. We learn it as a code, a system we agree to play along with in order to communicate beyond the present. It requires a level of flexibility from its users. Language...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue On Tuesday, May 14, 2019, I sat in my best friend’s apartment watching Game of Thrones and drinking wine. We’d made dinner—pasta shells stuffed with ricotta cheese and doused in marinara sauce—and she...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue “I think there’s something wrong with your baby’s brain,” the doctor says, her voice level, but her face as colorless as her starched lab coat. When the radiologist went to get her, Charles and I...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue “Get under the covers.” “I will.” “No,” he insisted. “Now.” She laughed. “I will, I will.” His sheet and comforter-covered feet clamped about her hips and tugged. She laughed again, and let him...
