Instead of the Lindy discourse can y’all please chat among yourselves about my new book THE ABORTION COMPANION: An Affirming Handbook for Your Choice & Your Journey? It features zero bad partners.

Boston and Portland, ME friends: I hope to see you this week on my last leg of book tour! Thursday 3/26 @allshewrotebks.bsky.social with @amylittlefield.bsky.social and EMA Fund 💕 Saturday 3/28 at Back Cove Books with Hannah Matthews and SAFE Maine

I’d like to read something about mid/later life trad wives - can any of y’all recommend something like that? I’m interested in understanding their inner worlds post young children (hobby reading!).

Apropos of nothing, 1 in 4 people who can get pregnant will have an abortion in their lifetime. If you’re asking for a free copy, that’s absolutely fine - I want this in everyone’s hands! But never ever say to me “I just don’t see it being used enough to justify the cost”.

I don’t usually waste my time thinking about men. But I feel compelled to share that I can count the number of men I truly trust with my life on one hand while I can name dozens of women.

It’s worth noting that my two professional communities - repro rights/justice advocates and bakers - are mainly made up of women. I’m reflecting on the layer of insulation that gives me from some forms of violence.

And watching your community and the broader world sanctify the person who harmed you must be an incredibly lonely kind of trauma. It makes me so deeply sad for each survivor.

I really appreciated @amylittlefield.bsky.social’s writing on this in KILLERS OF ROE - she talked about how men in positions of power who publicly do good works/ostensibly agree with us can and do weaponize that goodwill/closeness to harm us in private.

If you are a r*pist you are unfit to lead a movement, full stop. I hate that Dolores was forced to make a choice between her work and her safety.

BTS: www.patreon.com/posts/153361...

I’m so sad and so angry for Dolores and all survivors.

In her new book KILLERS OF ROE Amy Littlefield wrote that it’s sometimes hardest of all to talk to people who you *almost* agree with and boy am I feeling that rn! Hire me to help your org understand and unravel abortion stigma at the individual, community, and societal level 🩷

My toddler just said “I want to go mommy’s book tour” as I was leaving and I am so proud but also I will never be leaving the city limits again.

Do you live in Chicago? Come see me TOMORROW at the iconic Women & Children First in partnership with Chicago Abortion Fund. Free! Open to the public! 🩷 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-aborti...

Ok so my take is that David Harbour playing a character that is objectively humiliating (and also dies) right after the Lily Allen album is great PR strategy that he simply doesn’t deserve. Whoever is responsible for this, please use your talents for good instead!

My point is: resist that. Seek out the work of journalists, activists, and thinkers like @garnethenderson.com @susanrinkunas.com @kylietcheung.bsky.social @amylittlefield.bsky.social @gretchensisson.bsky.social @beccareatucker.bsky.social @renee.bsky.social @tinavasquez.bsky.social + so many others

I think it goes to show just how much this sort of reporting gets buried by *tHe AlGoRiThMs,* and when I think too hard about that, I want to walk into the sea.

When this story published, I did the thing where you send it out to people who might be interested. A man I consider smart and well read observed that abortion as a subject in journalism has “fallen off the radar a bit,” and I can’t stop thinking about that comment.

Y’all this person *came back* to update their review to insult me some more lmao. They are so upset about compassion! Imagine living like this! Also: it is in fact possible to be a working professional in multiple disciplines. I believe it makes my work stronger.

Book Club is the best modern ensemble cast rom com and it’s not even close.

I just am really glad I don’t have 9 kids! (My grandma did too, this isn’t *just* about the ballerina lady)

Is there a greater high than getting a second Yahtzee with sixes? (No).

Today on my Patreon: assembling a care package for someone having an abortion! Available to all members, free and paid 🩷 www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...

This is insane — DHS apparently went so far in their lie that Columbia University President Claire Shipman says the agents apparently brought faux flyers of a "missing child" so they could force themselves inside a campus residency to detain a college student.

Hi, does anyone here know what resources are available specifically for survivors who have abortions? I’d like to add them to my resource list. TY!

I support and respect trans Kansans. This is so awful. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen... @erininthemorning.com

Friends: I’m building an “Abortion Support” collection on my Patreon - I’d love to know what kind of resources you’d like to see there! My hope is that it will be an info hub for people who have abortions and the people who love us 🩷 www.patreon.com/collection/2...

From Anais Nin’s diary in 1941 here to slap me in the face in 2026 🩷 www.patreon.com/beccareatucker

“I don’t want to be pregnant” is a complete sentence.

So despite the ICE abduction this morning, Columbia didn’t take any steps to cancel classes or move them remote. No idea how noncitizen community members are supposed to feel safe showing up to study or work today.

It is absolutely disgusting, morally depraved behavior for ANY doctor to “medically clear” ANYONE for deportation. This isn’t difficult to understand.

Does anyone else relate to the feeling of wanting to crawl into a live TV commercial - particularly the living rooms - and just exist there in a liminal state, like some kind of sensory deprivation tank?

Today on my Patreon: A Guided Self-Compassion Exercise for People Who Have Abortions 🩷 www.patreon.com/posts/151634...

In an effort to reconnect with my community (away from the whims of Meta’s algorithm and the decision to platform hate speech on Substack), I'm moving to Patreon! Welcome, or welcome back 🩷 patreon.com/beccareatucker

Announcement: I’m moving to Patreon (after years and years of being very uncomfortable asking for $$ for my content), and I’d love to know what y’all would be interested in! Current ideas include quarterly bakealongs, monthly postcards, behind the scenes voice memos, and lots of lists. Tell me!

The bill sponsor who didn't respond to my comment request on allegations that repro groups blocked a Nevada bill to decriminalize abortion now says "making laws can be complicated, and not every bill passes." OK! thenevadaindependent.com/article/i-lo...

I really, unapologetically love the Hilary Duff album

Please show me the cutest pics of your pets - we need it!!

As I mentioned in this episode, newly activated folks must learn from the site fights waged by abolitionist movements against jails, prisons, and detention centers, because the scale of the concentration camp buildout is massive, and the fight to stop it will be as well. truthout.org/audio/living...

Good morning to people who have abortions and the people who love us!

Last night someone who attended my event told me they’d never heard someone talk about abortion out loud before, other than themselves. I can’t describe how proud I am of them.

I talked with @andreapitzer.bsky.social about why we should understand the Trump administration as a concentration camp regime, and what it means to fight back.

Providing accurate and affirming information about abortion care is an essential part of comprehensive sex ed.

Toni Collette calling method acting bullshit is feminist praxis and I won’t be elaborating but y’all should!

Good evening to everyone else in a mood.

Are there any Harvard (especially the law school) alums who want to be matched with a current student org to distribute copies of The Abortion Companion: An Affirming Handbook for Your Choice & Your Journey to people who need them on campus? Fill out my form! forms.gle/By6KpDaXBhg7...

Friends: I’m coming home to KC this Friday, 2/20 for a cozy evening to talk about the book and support @moabortionfund! Equal Minded Cafe, 4327 Troost Ave, 5:30pm Tickets are $15 without a book or $30 with a book, to benefit the fund! I hope to see you there 💕 www.helianthusbooks.com/events

ICE, DHS, CBP, prisons. police, all of it. Happy Valentine’s Day. Abolition now.

Instead of that one gofundme, please drop the ones for people who really need our support below. Families impacted by ICE/DHS/CBP, those who need help accessing gender affirming care, those trying to survive in Gaza, anything.