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Renee Bracey Sherman at Harvard Book Store
presenting
Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve
DateOct
30
Wednesday
October 30, 2024 7:00 PM ET |
LocationHarvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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This event is free; no tickets are required.
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Harvard Book Store welcomes Renee Bracey Sherman—reproductive justice activist, founder and co-executive director of We Testify, an organization dedicated to the leadership and representation of people who have abortions, and executive producer of the award-winning documentary Ours to Tell—for a discussion of her new book Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve.
About Liberating Abortion
People of color have been having abortions since the dawn of time, yet our access is continuously under attack. In Liberating Abortion, award-winning abortion activist Renee Bracey Sherman and journalist Regina Mahone illustrate the long racist history that brought us to this moment, uncover the hidden figures who set the foundation activists and storytellers are building on today, and explain how abortion has been and remains essential to the health of our communities.
Liberating Abortion will take you back to the basics of sex education, detailing the traditions of abortion over centuries , while examining how society makes us feel about our experiences. You’ll find rigorous research, never-before-heard stories, and eye-opening interviews with over 50 people of color who’ve had abortions, including activists, actresses, television writers, politicians, and the two Black members of Jane, the Chicago feminist service that provided abortions before Roe.
With poignant storytelling and precise analysis, Liberating Abortion will change how you think about abortion forever.
Praise for Liberating Abortion
"[Bracey Sherman and Mahone’s] informative text will help young women especially to navigate difficult decisions. An affirmative vision that places abortion within a social justice context, calling for equitable support for all families.” -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Liberating Abortion is an unabashed defense of abortion as an essential part of reproductive justice, inextricably tied to our right to parent on our own terms. Based on compelling stories of people of color who had and advocate for abortions, Bracey Sherman and Mahone contest the racist, sexist and unscientific myths that stigmatize abortion and they issue a no holds barred manifesto for abortion care—for anyone, anywhere, at any time, and for any reason. This book is the rebellious call for reproductive freedom we need right now." -Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body and Torn Apart
"The truth about abortion is sometimes uncomfortable. Abortion is medical care. It saves lives and families even if anti choice voices want to pretend otherwise. Here, Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone lay bare the truth compassionately and thoroughly. A necessary and breathtaking look at the past and the future, Liberating Abortion challenges us all to look past the buzzwords and political rhetoric to the humanity." -Mikki Kendall, author of Hood Feminism
"In a deeply consequential moment in our struggle for abortion justice, our Liberating Abortion storytellers, Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone, meet the moment with powerful insight and testimonials. Abortion care is health care. And together, we will work to build a nation where anyone who seeks abortion care can receive that care with dignity and support." -Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
"Open and inclusive dialogue is necessary to continue the fight for true reproductive freedom. Liberating Abortion is a timely and necessary account that rightly centers the abortion experiences of Black and Brown women in this country. Access to abortion impacts every single person; and every single person deserves to have their voice heard. This book brilliantly couples research with lived experiences of so many whose voices have been silenced for far too long." -Congresswoman Barbara Lee
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