‘Being a Slut Really Means You Are Untouchable’: On Shame, Power and the Reclamation of Words
‘Where Young Women are Gathering is Where the Fight is Being Taken’: How Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour is Championing Reproductive Rights
‘Abortion funding? It’s a good idea, right?’ This is the tagline printed on stickers with a QR code to abortion resources, handed out at the Enterprise Centre on 12th March 2024 at Rodrigo’s tour stop in St Louis, Missouri – along with condoms, lube, stickers and the morning-after pill…
‘Not One More’: Reflecting on Poland’s 2020 Abortion Ban Three Years On
Poland always struggled for its independence. The country fell under the regime of the Soviet Union at the end of WW2. Surprisingly, during this era, the government offered safe and legal access to abortion. The first talks of taking this fundamental right away surfaced in the first years of democratic Poland…
‘But it Couldn’t Possibly Happen Here!’: A Rebuttal Against Comfortable Thinking After Roe v Wade
This current government don’t see codifying reproductive rights into law as important. After all, when you have potential future PM Liz Truss spouting transphobic statements and reducing women to merely ‘people with cervixes’, it’s obvious how little importance the current government places on any person who has a uterus and requires medical assistance or an identity beyond their reproductive organs…
Why it’s Time to End Malta’s Century-Long Abortion Ban
There are still twenty-four countries that do not allow abortions under any circumstances. Among those twenty-four countries are the Philippines, Jamaica, Egypt, Iraq and Malta. One thing that sets Malta apart from other countries is that it is part of the European Union: a union that takes pride in its health care and equality…