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My Uterus was the Government’s Possession: Danish Neo-Colonial Control of Greenlandic People’s Reproductive Rights
Commentary Megan Willis Commentary Megan Willis

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’…

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‘Where Young Women are Gathering is Where the Fight is Being Taken’: How Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour is Championing Reproductive Rights
Commentary Megan Willis Commentary Megan Willis

‘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…

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