Join us for a discussion of Renee Bracey Sherman’s co-authored book, Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve!
Liberating Abortion will take you back to the basics of sex education, detailing the patterns of abortion over centuries, while examining how society interacts with abortion in general. You’ll find rigorous research, never-before-heard stories, and eye-opening interviews with over 50 people of color who have had abortions, including activists, actresses, television writers, politicians, and the two Black members of Jane, the Chicago feminist service that provided abortions before Roe.
Renee Bracey Sherman is a reproductive justice activist, abortion storyteller, and writer. She is the founder and co-executive director of We Testify, an organization dedicated to the leadership and representation of people who have abortions and share their stories at the intersection of race, class, and gender. She is also an executive producer of Ours to Tell, an award-winning documentary elevating the voices of people who have had abortions. Originally from Evanston, Illinois, she currently resides in Washington, D.C.
Natalie Y. Moore is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago, whose reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice, and violence. Natalie’s acclaimed book The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation received the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and was Buzzfeed’s best nonfiction book of 2016. She is also the co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang and Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation, as well as the play “The Billboard.” The Pulitzer Center named her a 2020 Richard C. Longworth Media fellow for her international reporting.