Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
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Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
"The enduring presence of the image of the Virgin Mary in art about abortion illuminates a crisis in representation." Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
“Comstock’s network made regular headlines as they hounded those who aided and abetted bodily autonomy seekers. These laws limited discussions pertaining to bodily autonomy, which became tenuous at best and litigious at worst..." Read: asapjournal.com/node/aiding-... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
"...alongside Milton’s descriptors, led me to ask questions about the biological function of the human uterus. And in that process, I discovered striking similarities between Milton’s warring chaos and a uterus during pregnancy." Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
“In Ancient Rome, male doctors were summoned during childbirth only if labor proved difficult. Instead, it was midwives who played the literal and figurative role of a physical and emotional support in childbirth...” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
Paula Rego is often called a remarkable storyteller as her work is deeply ingrained with narrative—sometimes personal, entangled with family & childhood memories, individual politics, experiences, feelings & emotions” Read: asapjournal.com/node/embodim... @asapjournal.bsky.social @jmss3.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
“By staging the abortion as a crime scene scattered with the abortionist’s dubious tools & techniques, [the work] also functions as a grotesquely ruinous parody of the artist’s studio—& thus positions Kienholz as the abortionist.” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Delighted to have written a brief comment for this collection! Thx @leilaeasa.bsky.social and Jennifer Stager for putting it together and much else.
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
“Sontag’s description of the fascist seduction as a process of “purification” that transformed “sexual energy into ‘spiritual force’ for the benefit of the community” aligns with the self-described pro-life movement in America.” Read here: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion.” asapjournal.com/cluster/from....
“But Munch’s selection of impression for the Armory show suggests that the work could also be topical, implicated and even intervening—or not—in debates over abortion, contraception, & women’s rights in Europe and the U.S." Read here: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion.” asapjournal.com/cluster/from....
“In light of these...attacks on abortion access concomitant w greater restrictions on women’s rights to make choices about their bodies, this cluster takes up the politics surrounding abortion as it threads through art & activism." asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
"Portuguese painter Paula Rego is often called a remarkable storyteller, as her work is deeply ingrained with narrative. Her stories are sometimes personal, entangled with family and childhood memories, individual politics, experiences, feelings, and emotions."
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"Equally disturbing is the threat of censorship, not just regarding abortion, but also pregnancy, miscarriage, and contraception, subjects typically seen as common knowledge but are increasingly suppressed, forbidden, and in extreme cases, criminalized."
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"Sontag’s description of the fascist seduction as a process of “purification” that transformed “sexual energy into ‘spiritual force’ for the benefit of the community” aligns with the values of the self-described pro-life movement in America."
asapjournal.com/node/from-th...
"But Munch’s selection of impression for the Armory show suggests that the work could also be highly topical, implicated and even intervening – or not – in debates over abortion, contraception, and women’s rights in Europe and the U.S. around 1900 and beyond."
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"In light of these unprecedented attacks on abortion access concomitant w greater restrictions on women’s rights to make choices about their bodies, this cluster takes up the politics surrounding the history of abortion as it threads through art practice & activism."
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"Taken together," this cluster "suggest[s] that artistic representation can reveal what is often hidden. In the case of abortion—often illegal, often shameful, at times known more through whisper networks than official archives—so much is concealed."
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"What would our resistance look like if we thought more about aesthetics? What new kinds of resistance might emerge if aesthetics were central to our conceptualization of reproductive resistance?"
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Three years in the making, this cluster is out in the world!
Celebrating Women’s History Month at CCSF with a talk (open to the public and on zoom at ccsf-edu.zoom.us/j/81402940934).
With @jmss3.bsky.social
THR 17.1, with Jennifer Stager and my special guest edited folio “Locating a Collective Lyric ‘I,’” now open access via Project MUSE thru 2025. We’re celebrating with a week of free events at & near Johns Hopkins. 🙏🏻 @hopkinsreview.bsky.social 💕
muse.jhu.edu/issue/52008
hopkinsreview.com/171-folio