In the early ’90s, anarchists and other feminists defended clinics with our bodies and taught each other how to do abortion techniques such as menstrual extraction safely. As the Christian Right bombed hundreds of clinics, killed health care providers and patients, and mobilized its base to swarm clinics and shut them down, grassroots reproductive freedom […]
Archives for July 2022
Who Are the Experts? An archival glimpse at 1969 abortion rights actions
This is the second posting in Reproductive Freedom: A Series, launched earlier this week by Hard Crackers. In this post, we share a collection of historical materials from the Redstockings Archives for Action. Redstockings was an active women’s liberation group founded in the 1960s. The documents collected are drawn from materials related to a February […]
Launching Reproductive Freedom: A Series
Introduction to Reproductive Freedom: A Series A short while ago, Hard Crackers sent an invitation to people who we knew had been active in various reproductive freedom projects over the last fifty years to help us think through the issues and challenges involved in developing an effective radical strategy to secure unrestricted access to abortion […]
Nothing to Covet: Reflections on Growing Up Near a U.S. Military Base
In my hometown thirty miles northeast of Detroit, there is a stretch of road that runs along the border of Selfridge Air National Guard Base, one of nearly 500 military bases found in the United States. Just past the fence on the base side of the road is a landing strip, and if you drove […]
Rebellion, Routinized
When the Kenosha verdict dropped in November 2021, the 2020 uprising in my city was still limping along. The actions were led by the same thirty or so people and attended by the same hundredish. The call to protest the verdict was shared widely on social media but the animating rage of summer 2020 had […]