Choice Words
Choice Words
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This landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and literary essays about abortion, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, is a powerful collection of timely pieces on the struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making, this book spans continents and centuries; the manuscript includes Audre Lorde, Margaret Atwood, Lucille Clifton, Amy Tan, Gloria Steinem, Ursula Le Guin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joyce Carol Oates, Gloria Naylor, Dorothy Parker, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anne Sexton, Ntozake Shange, Sholeh Wolpe, Ai, Jean Rhys, Mahogany L. Browne, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Frank O’Hara, Vi Khi Nao, Sharon Olds, Judith Arcana, Alice Walker, Lucille Clifton, Molly Peacock, Carol Muske-Dukes, Mo Yan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Kathy Acker, Langston Hughes, Sharon Doubiago, and numerous other classic and contemporary writers including voices from Canada, France, China, India, Iran, Ireland, Kenya, and Pakistan.
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Very timely collection of essays, poems, plays and more which gives voice to the myriad of perspectives surrounding reproductive choice and abortion - the various reasons for it, regrets ot sighs of relief, a choice thought through or coerced by people and circumstances, something forgotten by the passage of time or a feeling that haunts you forever - every kind of emotion is captured in these pages, across countries and cultures and decades and I was completely moved by these stories and experiences. It only reinforces my conviction to always advocate for reproductive freedom, especially when we find it more in danger every single day.