Screening Tonight-- Speak Out: I Had an Abortion
Posted June 2, 2005 by in Events
If you can please try to make it to uniondocs tonight for a screening of Speak Out: I Had an Abortion. Before the film begins artists Linda Zacks and Swoon will be on hand presenting their work and afterwards there will be a discussion with the filmmakers and some of the women from the film.
The following is text from the film's webpage:
"1.3 million women get abortions each year in the U.S. alone. For most it is a secret. The debate itself is loud and paralyzing while the voices of the women who get abortions are submerged.
"Speak Out: I Had an Abortion," directed by Gillian Aldrich and co-produced by Aldrich and Jennifer Baumgardner, documents the stories of 11 women ranging in age from 21 to 85. The film cuts across race, religion, region, class, sexuality, and politics--demonstrating that abortion effects all women."
As part of the film's outreach to change perceptions and attitudes about abortion Jennifer Baumgardner has designed a simple t-shirt reading "I Had an Abortion,"explaining that "About a year ago, I decide to work on a DIY (do-it-yourself) project to encourage women to “come out” about their abortion procedures. The political reason behind it was that I believe that one of the reasons it is so easy to demonize abortion is that the issue is often isolated from the very women (our mothers, sisters, friends, grandmas, selves) that have abortions." Additionally, she also produced cards "to be distributed to abortion clinics that read “If you’ve had an abortion, you don’t have to be sorry” and then listed resources such as non-judgmental counseling, the religious coalition for choice, ways to be involved politically, and how to raise money for your or another woman’s procedure."
You can purchase shirts from Clamor and to order cards, contact jennifer@manifesta.net.
photo by Tara Todras-Whitehall can be found here.
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The film is screening @ 8pm
DIRECTIONS
UnionDocs
322 Union Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
USA
L train to Lorimer Street / G to Metropolitan Ave
Exit subway and walk south on Union Ave (away from the BQE)
322 Union is on the east side of Union Ave after you cross Maujer St
J train to Hewes Street
Walk up Hooper to South 1st
Turn right and walk one block to Union Ave
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THANKS!!!!!
Posted by: antlered girl at June 2, 2005 12:13 PM