‘Being a Slut Really Means You Are Untouchable’: On Shame, Power and the Reclamation of Words
My Uterus was the Government’s Possession: Danish Neo-Colonial Control of Greenlandic People’s Reproductive Rights
In the spring of 2022, Naja Lyberth broke 46 years of silence when she told the Greenlandic magazine Arnanut that a Danish district doctor had forcedly fitted her and other girls from Maniitsoq with an intrauterine device (IUD) in 1976 – when they were 14 years old. The foreign object ‘felt grotesquely misplaced inside me’, Lyberth said, ‘like knives penetrating me’…
‘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…