Index of Articles and Essays
Artists Respond to Texas Senate Bill 8: Shanai MattesonResisting Shame
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Artists Respond to Texas Senate Bill 8: Nooshin Hakim Javadi | |
Artists Respond to Texas Senate Bill 8: Monica Sheets It’s fitting that Texas’ new abortion restrictions went into effect during the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack in the US. 9/11 and the subsequent, unending “War on Terror” inaugurated an era of surveillance that now seems inescapable. Technologies like facial recognition software have made possible the kinds of observation and social control that were once the province of dystopian fiction. But what’s most insidious about the Texas law is its reliance on peer-to-peer surveillance and unofficial informants. |
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Artists Respond to Texas Senate Bill 8: Rachel Jendrzejewski | |
Artists Respond to Texas Senate Bill 8: Candice DavisTelling the Story of Kinship
In my time doing research into my family history, I came across allegations that my great-grandmother died as a result of mental and physical health complications after an illegal and unregulated abortion. She’d already faced a lifetime of hardships. She was a social pariah in her small town, due to widespread knowledge that she was the illegitimate product of an affair. |