Szobel’s research brings to light valuable insights into the past, present, and future of gender, nationalism, erasure, silence, representation, and their impact on sexual violence. It’s urgent in its truth-telling, and essential in its revealed realities.
Artists are memory workers – they witness and then create, they bring things back. We have the tools, we can create a way out of nothing. That’s what artists offer right now.
While many of us are at home, anti-choice politicians and their supporters are exploiting the anxiety around COVID-19 by attacking access to abortion rights.
“Unlikeable” female characters should probably just be called “characters.”
And what does it mean for abortion rights?
This film clarifies that the tentacles of the anti-choice movement reach far beyond access to abortion, and we all have reason to be afraid. Check out the case of an Orthodox Jewish woman who was given a C-section against her wishes.
Tsemel never wins. As in, she tells the camera, her clients always end up serving time. The point of continuing is to challenge the Israeli court system, which has been corrupted by the Occupation. “Why appeal if you don’t believe in the courts?,” Tsemel is asked. She replies, “To change them.”
There’s another element to the abortion rights conversation, and that has to do with the separation of church and state. “It’s also a slap in the face to my own religious freedom,” says Molly Wernick.
Authors and podcast hosts Karen KIlgariff and Georgia Hardstark make meaning from their mutual obsession with murder, serial killers, cold cases, survivor stories, kidnappings, and all other things that fall under the category of “inappropriate for the general public.”
Let the revolutions of these characters, facing the worst kinds of religious and cultural patriarchy, buoy you.
