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People sitting under tents outside Lake Street Truth Collective Public Conversation [Transcript]

Hear from Lake Street Truth Collective Truth & Repair facilitators Quito Ziegler, Jennings Mergenthal, and Kya Concepcion about their work engaging the Lake Street community during summer 2021 on the former Roberts Shoes lot on Lake St. & Chicago Ave. Moderated by WAM's curator for creative collaboration, Boris Oicherman. This event was recorded on December 1, 2021.
A poster design featuring a human profile in silhouette staring down, with a spotlit beam coming out of the eye. The eye gazes on a small fetus, within the belly of a pregnant woman, also in silhouette. Text reads: If you see something ... say something. Report all pregnancies to the proper authorities. Artists Respond to Texas Senate Bill 8: An Introduction to the Series by Boris Oicherman

AN ACT relating to abortion, including abortions after detection of an unborn child's heartbeat; authorizing a private civil right of action.
(Texas Senate Bill S. B. 8, September 1, 2021)

 
Felt Here materials and print square Artists Respond to Texas Senate Bill 8: Shanai MattesonResisting Shame


“It is essential to emphasize that violence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth.”
—Sylvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women

 
A naked, female-presenting torso faces the camera in the foreground, in front of a window; her arms partially cover her breasts; her fists are clenched and poised up, as if ready to punch. On her belly is a message written in thick, black, all-caps: YOU ARE COLONIZING MY BODY AS YOU DID MY HOMELAND Artists Respond to Texas Senate Bill 8: Nooshin Hakim Javadi
A poster design featuring a human profile in silhouette staring down, with a spotlit beam coming out of the eye. The eye gazes on a small fetus, within the belly of a pregnant woman, also in silhouette. Text reads: If you see something ... say something. Report all pregnancies to the proper authorities. 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.