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I know what's best for you : stories on reproductive freedom / edited by Shelly Oria.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Francisco : McSweeney's, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 477 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781952119217
  • 1952119219
Other title:
  • I know what is best for you
Subject(s):
Contents:
Foreword / Shelly Oria -- I know what's best for you all over the world -- Hymn / Desiree Cooper -- Let's just be normal and have a baby / Alison Espach -- [Yen]360/[Dollar]360 / Kim Gek Lin Short -- Progression / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh -- Anti-fairy tales from the feminine book of fuck this / Kate Tarker -- Protest / R.O. Kwon -- There is nothing very wrong with me / Onnesha Roychoudhuri -- Labor and other poems / Ama Codjoe -- Curse of the spider woman / Riva Lehrer -- Monsters we create / Georgina Escobar -- Steel womb / Carrie Bornstein -- Maheov / Tommy Orange -- What can I do for you? -- And pandemic / Yael R. Shinar -- Journal of my birth / Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- It began in another land / Hannah Lillith Assadi ; Shelly Oria -- Not anyone's hero / Khadijah Queen -- The babies / Kristen Arnett -- The fig queen / Sally Wen Mao -- Two poems / Mary Jo Bang -- Women like me / Erin Williams ; Kate Novotny -- My nieces / Deb Olin -- They just might be seen / Donnetta Lavinia Grays -- Compliance: a guide / Cade Leebron -- Divorcedly / Tiphanie Yanique -- Climate primer for babies / Deborah Landau -- Scarlet letter / Sarah Gerard -- Christians in the catacombs / Kirstin Valdez Quade -- We bled all winter / Shelly Oria.
Summary: "This explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality. An enlisted sailor must choose between her military career and keeping an unexpected pregnancy. A mother of three decides to become a surrogate, but is unprepared for everything that happens next. A trans man's pregnancy forces them to approach their key relationships in a new way. A woman's choice to live a child-free life is put to the test when her husband's dying wish is for them to become parents. In their own unique and unforgettable way, each of the twenty-eight contributors responds to our crisis of access to care in ways that are at turns haunting, heartbreaking, and outright funny." -- page [4] of cover.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 810.8035 I11 Available 33111010875033
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Edited by Shelly Oria --author and editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus --this explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality.

An enlisted sailor must choose between her military career and keeping an unexpected pregnancy. A mother of three decides to become a surrogate, but is unprepared for everything that happens next. A trans man's pregnancy forces them to approach their key relationships in a new way. A woman's choice to live a child-free life is put to the test when her husband's dying wish is for them to become parents. Forced sterilization camps line the borders of America in a dystopian future that may not be far off.

In their own unique and unforgettable way, each storyteller examines our crisis of access to care in ways that are at turns haunting, heartbreaking, and outright funny.

This collection is a collaboration with the Brigid Alliance, a nationwide service that arranges and funds confidential and personal travel support to those seeking abortion care.


"With support from The Brigid Alliance"

Foreword / Shelly Oria -- I know what's best for you all over the world -- Hymn / Desiree Cooper -- Let's just be normal and have a baby / Alison Espach -- [Yen]360/[Dollar]360 / Kim Gek Lin Short -- Progression / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh -- Anti-fairy tales from the feminine book of fuck this / Kate Tarker -- Protest / R.O. Kwon -- There is nothing very wrong with me / Onnesha Roychoudhuri -- Labor and other poems / Ama Codjoe -- Curse of the spider woman / Riva Lehrer -- Monsters we create / Georgina Escobar -- Steel womb / Carrie Bornstein -- Maheov / Tommy Orange -- What can I do for you? -- And pandemic / Yael R. Shinar -- Journal of my birth / Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- It began in another land / Hannah Lillith Assadi ; Shelly Oria -- Not anyone's hero / Khadijah Queen -- The babies / Kristen Arnett -- The fig queen / Sally Wen Mao -- Two poems / Mary Jo Bang -- Women like me / Erin Williams ; Kate Novotny -- My nieces / Deb Olin -- They just might be seen / Donnetta Lavinia Grays -- Compliance: a guide / Cade Leebron -- Divorcedly / Tiphanie Yanique -- Climate primer for babies / Deborah Landau -- Scarlet letter / Sarah Gerard -- Christians in the catacombs / Kirstin Valdez Quade -- We bled all winter / Shelly Oria.

"This explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality. An enlisted sailor must choose between her military career and keeping an unexpected pregnancy. A mother of three decides to become a surrogate, but is unprepared for everything that happens next. A trans man's pregnancy forces them to approach their key relationships in a new way. A woman's choice to live a child-free life is put to the test when her husband's dying wish is for them to become parents. In their own unique and unforgettable way, each of the twenty-eight contributors responds to our crisis of access to care in ways that are at turns haunting, heartbreaking, and outright funny." -- page [4] of cover.

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