fiction/non/fiction 18: Slouching Toward Gilead: Anjali Enjeti and Lacy Johnson on the new anti-abortion laws
In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, Anjali Enjeti and Lacy Johnson speak with hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about recent news and legislation about abortion, as well as its depiction in literature and film.
Guests:
● Lacy Johnson
● Anjali Enjeti
Readings for the Episode:
● “Is Masculinity a Terrorist Ideology? Lacy Johnson on Rachel Louise Snyder and the Ways We Name Violence,” on LitHub
● The Reckonings by Lacy Johnson
● “Governor Kemp Is Turning Georgia Into Gilead,” by Anjali Enjeti in Dame Magazine, April 1, 2019
● “Borderline,” by Anjali Enjeti, from Prime Number Magazine No. 79
● Abortion Bans: 8 States Have Passed Bills to Limit the Procedure This Year
● “Embryos Don’t Have Hearts,” by Katie Heaney● Invisible Sisters by Jessica Handler
● Dirty Dancingdir. Emile Ardolino (1987)
● The Mothers by Brit Bennett
● The Cider House Rules by John Irving
● Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
● “Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway from Men Without Women
● Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” from “The Girl’s” Point of View by Rachel Klein from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, July 21, 2017
● “Missouri could become first US state without an abortion clinic,” by Jessica Glenza, May 28, The Guardian.
● “The Real Origins of the Religious Right” by Randall Balmer in Politico Magazine May 27, 2014
● Gwendolyn Brooks, “the mother”
● Pro, by Katha Pollitt
● The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
● “An Abortion That Saved My Life,” by Susan Ito, in Refinery 29, January 22, 2015.
● The Bible
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