Writing About Abortion

Rebecca Traister is a writer for New York and the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. Her latest article is "The Necessity of Hope."

“A big motivation of this piece, which I think is framed in this there’s still reason to hope is actually the inverse of that. Which is: Let us be crystal clear about what is happening, what is lost, what is violated. The cruelty, the horror, and the injustice, and that is it only moving toward worse right now. And to establish that to then say that it is the responsibility to really absorb that, and then figure out how to move forward.”

Show notes:

• @rtraister
• rebeccatraister.com
• Traister on Longform
• Traister on Longform Podcast
• 5:00 "Roe's Final Hours in One of America's Largest Abortion Clinics" (Stephania Taladrid • New Yorker • Jun 2022)
• 10:00 "The Dissenters Say You're Not Hysterical" (Irin Carmon • New York • Jun 2022)
• 23:00 "The Immoderate Susan Collins" (New York • Feb 2020)
• 26:00 Traister's Salon archive
• 26:00 "Abortion’s Deadly DIY Past Could Soon Become Its Future" (New York • Jan 2017)
• 27:00 "Let's Just Say It: Women Matter More Than Fetuses Do" (The New Republic • Nov 2014)
• 27:00 "The Institutionalist" (The Cut • Jun 2022)

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