Move over, Grandpa. You think ageism is your cause? Last week, Created Equal, an Ohio-based organization opposed to ending unwanted pregnancies came to town, making stops at the city’s largest college campuses. At Northwestern, they set up shop on Sheridan Road, displaying enlarged images of dismembered fetal parts and passing out leaflets announcing that “Abortion […]
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The choice is yours, voters
Content warning: This column contains a reference to sexual violence. As I write, it’s Labor Day—traditionally, the start of the election season. That means “normal” people start to sorta pay attention to what’s going on in politics, as opposed to political junkies, like myself, who never stop paying attention. As such, it’s my pleasure to […]
On demand, without apology
Stripping the right to abortion harms incarcerated women.
Trigger’s back
As you know by now, the MAGA Six on the Supreme Court eviscerated abortion rights with their recent anti-Roe ruling, thus triggering local laws that instantaneously made abortion illegal in a dozen or so states. None of which were Illinois. And for that we must at least partially thank former Governor Bruce Rauner. Words I […]
The Janes is a call to action
“What we know for a fact is that making abortion illegal does not stop women from seeking abortions, it just keeps them from getting safe abortions.”
The end of Roe
Regarding the recently revealed U.S. Supreme Court draft ruling on Roe v. Wade: WTF? Because, it’s the F we’re talking about, right? That little itch we’re biologically programmed to scratch and its inordinate, inequitable aftermath? As I’ve opined here before, if cisgender men were the ones carrying a pregnancy for nine months, suffering through an […]
Abortion is healthcare
Tips on obtaining an abortion and supporting abortion access in a post-Roe vs Wade world
A provocative ad stirs debate about abortion in Natalie Moore’s new play
In The Billboard, Moore explores the nuances of abortion through intraracial lens in the face of threats from a political gadfly.
Mouth Congress confront anti-abortion violence and bigotry in “The People Have Spoken”
Scott Thompson and Paul Bellini are better known from the Kids in the Hall than for their 80s queercore band, but the lead single from their retrospective compilation is no joke.
The Originalist show us the man behind “the monster”
Antonin Scalia had his flaws, but he did recognize the power of the Notorious RBG.
Rauner tries to keep his Republican coalition together by throwing women under the bus
The former pro-choice governor has threatened to veto a pro-choice bill.
The fastest vibrators in Chicago race for reproductive rights
Personal PAC’s pro-choice fund-raiser is kind of like a turtle race. Only with vibrators. And politics.
A play about abortion that’s Remarkably Normal
The 1 in 3 Campaign brings its Vagina Monologues-style piece to Chicago.