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PBH205H: Post-Abortive
- UTSFL specific story
- Claiming My Woundedness blog post from a PhD student at U of T who had an abortion as a teenager in response to our “Choice” Chain campaign
- She saw “Choice” Chain the same day as she heard about a serious threat of violence from an internet commenter specifically targeted at feminists, bringing to mind past examples of violence against women and real instances of feminist students being targeted on campuses (e.g. Montreal). She describes these as “two separate events” as doesn't link them in a causal way at all, but they are parallel and related in her mind.
- She didn't react well or respond to an attempt I made to reach out by email (decided not to comment publicly, thought email would be more respectful)
- And… to put this is context… look at the rest of what she had to deal with on Twitter that same day, in response to “shouting her abortion”…
- “it smells like #feminism, and feminism is #shit”1)
- “#women that get drunk fuck some random guy regret it and scream #lie #rape to destroy his life are a threat”2)
- “we don't need to teach men not to #rape because not all men are rapists or rapists men, so do fuck off you #sexist cunt” 3)
- “Today I blocked and reported 2 ppl b/c of harassment (“sexist cunt”) and a tweet that told me not to cry b/c “I'm going in dry” #misogyny” 4)
- How and what specifically can we do better when addressing the need to expose the injustice of abortion in the face of an emergency that pre-born children are facing, but in a context of such woundedness from abortion and such misogyny in response to it?
- (Maria:) I have been thinking about whether TAA could try to bring some women and men from Silent No More to some activism…obviously not feasible at every Choice Chain or anything, but what about at the big activism days that are planned farther in advance–banner at Ryerson, HRP at U of T…? I think it could be especially powerful to have some of them with their signs and testimonies at GBC and Ryerson, there are so many post-abortive people there. https://www.endthekilling.ca/blog/2012/06/27/how-healed-help-hurting Is this something we could be intentional about?