Sunny Chapman is a longtime activist and artist. In the 1980s and 1990s she participated in abortion clinic defense struggles by escorting women to clinics and videotaping the activities of anti-abortion activists. In this interview, she discusses how her own abortion experience with Jane politicized her to become an activist and she shares some of […]
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Redstockings Abortion Speak Out
This is the fourth post in the Hard Crackers Reproductive Freedom Series. The post is an edited transcript of remarks made by women who spoke at the first Abortion Speak Out on March 21, 1969 in New York City. A full recording is available at the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archive (https://archive.org/details/RedstockingsAbortionSpeakoutNewYork1969March21). A full transcript was […]
Clinic Defense in the Era of Operation Rescue
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 […]
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 […]