If you’re in Texas, you can still order abortion pills by mail. Check out INeedAnA.com

Ahhhhhh!! This makes me smile so big!! Thank you!!

federal agents are in DC. you're probably wondering what this means for abortion access in the District. www.instagram.com/p/DNV9EVNxje...

fund the police and facilitating genocide are going to go down as world-changing catastrophes.

Breaking News: The U.S. military is preparing to activate National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., as part of President Trump’s crackdown on crime, a Defense Department official said.

The most unsafe I've ever felt in DC was 1) when Trump sent the National Guard after peaceful protesters in June 2020 and 2) When Trump did not call the National Guard while an armed mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6. Trump is the "crime, savagery, filth, and scum"

DC! Do not go near Rhode Island and Montana Ave NE. BORDER PATROL AND FEDS ARE POSTED UP. @harrietsdreams.bsky.social @freedcproject.bsky.social

Today is my 20th Abortionaversary and each year I take a day for myself, often in nature, and reflect on what that decision meant for my life and the path I’ve taken. This year, I decided to share what I’ve learned.

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"Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve" by @renee.bsky.social and @byreginamahone.bsky.social? Yes, please! 🌟 A copy signed by Renee Bracey Sherman!? Double yes, please! 💜 #LiberateAbortion #AbortionIsABlessing

"We are being forced to choose between funding to ensure people can have abortions, or remaining silent about the systems that criminalize our work & fund genocide. Our silence will not protect us, & neither will our silos." @renee.bsky.social for @prismreports.org prismreports.org/2025/05/28/r...

For @prismreports.org, I wrote some thoughts about the way our funders are abandoning us for sticking to the reproductive justice values we swore to uphold when defending Palestine. prismreports.org/2025/05/28/r...

"Is the reproductive justice movement one that stands against wars and genocide, or not? Do our funders stand with us in that call for peace, or not? Is it reproductive justice for all, or not?" — @renee.bsky.social prismreports.org/2025/05/28/r...

Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention— "Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."

Repping abortion liberation, a free Palestine, and a free DC with @girdish.bsky.social at the protest today.

Abortion bans are health bans, without changes we'll have more deaths Her Daughter Died After a Fatal Delay in Reproductive Care. Now, She’s Fighting for Justice. capitalbnews.org/shannette-wi... by @rebekahsager.bsky.social @capitalb.bsky.social CC: @reginadavismoss.bsky.social @renee.bsky.social

Regret to inform you that there’s a big Supreme Court argument tomorrow. Wrote an explainer:

We are working on getting her the care she needs and deserves. But we shouldn’t have to. Abortion care should be easily accessible, free, and without government intrusion.

Say it louder! @renee.bsky.social, co-author of #LiberatingAbortion & founder of We Testify, does an amazing job discussing the financial difficulties of getting an abortion and why it’s vital that more people see a realistic depiction of what the process looks like. www.instagram.com/p/DHtD01EM25j/

Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve by @renee.bsky.social and @byreginamahone.bsky.social Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation edited by Eli Feghali, Rachel Plattus, Nathan Schneider, and Elandria Williama

Did W.E.B. DuBois's lover, Georgia Douglas Johnson, have an abortion during their affair??? @renee.bsky.social has the BEST historical gossip.

Join me and @renee.bsky.social and @kweingarten.bsky.social to talk abortion, literature, storytelling and representation, next Tuesday in NYC:

Some really exciting stuff coming up, starting with the launch of this urgent and impressive collection. TOMORROW! (🧵 for more) www.eventbrite.com/e/a-new-clas... @kweingarten.bsky.social @rtraister.bsky.social @renee.bsky.social @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

I'm partnering with fellow authors @renee.bsky.social @thesweetfeminist.bsky.social and Sabia Wade to support All-Options, an incredible organization that provides meaningful, free, unbiased options counseling for the repro movements. Donate for books (& candy!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You can order the book or come see us speak about it this evening at the CUNY Graduate Center where Astoria Books will be selling copies. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-new-clas...

This is just a selection of some of the texts included! There are other essays, stories, poems, and excerpts. Rebecca Traister wrote a beautiful foreword, Renee Bracey Sherman wrote a powerful afterword (with suggestions for contemporary readings), and I wrote an introduction with historical context

Patricia Maginnis, often considered the first pro-abortion activist, believed in the repeal of ALL anti-abortion laws. She also held classes about how to self-abortion and ran an abortion referral service in California. Included are some of her satirical pro-abortion limericks.

Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress, gave a powerful speech to Congress in 1969 (her FIRST year) about the necessity of legal and accessible abortion. Called "Facing the Abortion Question," it's worth reading in its entirety because her arguments are still sadly relevant.

In 1965 @theatlantic.com published an anonymous essay by a Mrs. X called "One Woman's Abortion." It describes how one middle-class woman went about finding an illegal abortion and condemned the secrecy and difficulty of procuring one. It was a radical move for the magazine to publish this article.

There's an excerpt from the bestselling novel Peyton Place (1956) by Grace Metalious. This novel was widely successful when it came out and sympathetically portrayed a character having an illegal abortion. At a time when abortion was increasingly harder to access, it made a powerful point.

Okay hear me out: after reading this book and just talking with the author I am convinced Georgia Douglas Johnson’s poem about abortion is about her abortion during her affair with WEB DuBois. 👀

"Motherhood" (1922) by the poet (and playwright, editor, musician, teacher, and principal) Georgia Douglas Johnson was the first published work about abortion I could find by a Black writer. Johnson deserves more attention too for all her contributions to Black art and culture in the early 20th C.

You can also find the full-text of Eugene O'Neill's one-act play Abortion (1914). Never performed in his life time, it sympathetically depicts a woman who died of an abortion. It's hard to find this play in print, and people are often surprised that a famous playwright gave his play this title.

Included are several WPA oral histories of formerly enslaved people (Anna Lee, William Byrd, Mary Gaffney, William Coleman, Lulu Lee) describing how women used abortifacients like cotton root to prevent/ end pregnancies (the distinction was blurred) as a form of resistance to slavery.

Abortion Stories: American Literature Before Roe is out today! Buy it wherever books are sold (but preferable from your local bookseller). I'm going to talk here about some of the selections I'm most excited were included.

#ICYMI, For #BlackHistoryPresentFutureMonth (& always!), we celebrated amazing #ReproductiveJustice activists 💜 @ashwilliamsclt (he/him) @omisadeburneyscott.bsky.social (she/her) @diamondsr4.bsky.social (she/her) @renee.bsky.social (she) @angryblacklady.bsky.social (she) @superkwa.bsky.social (she)

Writing the afterword for this volume was a dream come true. The writing is iconic and a beautiful collection of history. Thank you @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social @elizvogt.bsky.social & @kweingarten.bsky.social for the opportunity. I hope everyone picks it up.

Featuring luminaries Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucile Clifton and more, Abortion Stories shows how access to abortion is often race and class dependent, and argues for the necessity of legal and accessible abortion. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4i6FUQG

New to Penguin Classics: Abortion Stories, a one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of stories, poems, essays, and memoirs on abortion published before 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in every American state. Learn more: bit.ly/4i6FUQG

just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there

and this is consistent with 25 years of “the global war on sex trafficking,” in which lawmakers, NGOs, and law enforcement consistently backed policies and programs that increased people’s risk of being trafficked and endangered people who were trafficked

Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers

What’s maddening is that these folks are fine with abortion bans because they don’t believe it impacts them. Yet all reproductive health is tied. The anti-abortion movement doesn’t support fertility treatments either. They reject the concept of reproductive health and “unnatural” technologies.

Yeah i'm sorry but if you believed he would make fertility treatments free, that's on you. The man is a chronic liar.

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