Shout Your Abortion

Edited by Amelia Bonow & Emily Nokes. Published by PM Press

Softcover, 224 pages, Prose w/ Colour and B&W Comics, 2018

Following the U.S. Congress’s attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion became a viral conduit for abortion storytelling, receiving extensive media coverage and positioning real human experiences at the center of America’s abortion debate for the very first time. The online momentum sparked a grassroots movement that has subsequently inspired countless individuals to share their abortion stories in art, media, and community events all over the country, and to begin building platforms for others to do the same.

Shout Your Abortion is a collection of photos, essays, and creative work inspired by the movement of the same name, a template for building new communities of healing, and a call to action. Since SYA’s inception, people all over the country have shared stories and begun organizing in a range of ways: making art, hosting comedy shows, creating abortion-positive clothing, altering billboards, starting conversations that had never happened before. This book documents some of these projects and illuminates the individuals who have breathed life into this movement, illustrating the profound liberatory and political power of defying shame and claiming sole authorship of our experiences. With Roe vs. Wade on the brink of reversal, the act of shouting one’s abortion has become explicitly radical, and Shout Your Abortion is needed more urgently than ever before.

Featuring work by:

Angela Garbes, Lesley Hazleton, Lindy West, Mandy Trichell, Clementine Ford, Anonymous, Miki Sodos, Rosa, Queen, Megan Rice, Viva Ruiz, Erin, Amy Brenneman, Megan L. Harding, Kirsten West Savali, Alyana Isabel Knaver, Amelia Bonow, Jenifer Groves, S. Surface, Seneca, Dana Davenport, Wendy Davis, Amy, Betty, Chrissy, Danielle Campoamor, Emily, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Joy, Cassandra Panek, Claudia & Jo Anne, Shelly Bell, Shawna Murphy, Emily Elizabeth, Aja Dailey, Amy Jochsett, El Sanchez, Jessa Jordan, Laurel, Alayna Becker, Alana Edmondson, Poppy Liu, Tatiana Gill, Robyn Jordan, Dr. Willie Parker, Marva N. Sadler, Dr. Yashica Robinson, Dalton Johnson