Amelia Bonow has developed Shout Your Abortion (SYA) into a nationwide movement to create places for people to discuss their abortions online, in art and media, and in public events. Bonow's writing has appeared in BUST, the Huffington Post, the New York Daily News, Salon, and the Stranger. Emily Nokes is a musician, writer, graphic designer, and illustrator. Her work has appeared in the Stranger and she now serves as the music editor at BUST . Lindy West is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. Her work has also appeared in This American Life, the Guardian, Cosmopolitan, and elsewhere. She cofounded #ShoutYourAbortion and authored Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman.
"Shout Your Abortion reflects what makes me most hopeful for this
next century, that there's a whole new generation of young people
who refuse to be judged and shamed about who they are, whether it's
their gender identity, their sexual orientation, or what they do
with their body."
--Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of
America "By presenting a collection of nuanced narratives, Shout
Your Abortion aims to advance a message of broader acceptance: If
your abortion experience was hard and sad, that's okay. If your
abortion experience wasn't hard or sad, that's also okay. This
marks a significant tonal shift in the cultural conversation about
abortion."
--Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post "Shout Your Abortion has altered
the landscape. We all knew that abortion stigma was a central tool
in keeping women silent and isolated. Amelia Bonow busted down that
door and women poured through it like a dam had burst."
--Martha Plimpton, actor and cofounder of A is For "Zora Neale
Hurston said that if you are silent about your pain, people will
kill you and say that you enjoyed it. Shout Your Abortion is
reducing pain by helping all to reject stigmatizing abortion
silence. That too is life's work."
--Dr. Willie Parker, author of Life's Work: A Moral Argument for
Choice "It's been so inspiring for me to see a woman making that
stand, building the movement, bringing our stories
forward...because really, this is what it's going to take. It's
going to take all of us. And we will take the political revolution,
with #ShoutYourAbortion and everything else we're trying to do, to
the U.S. Congress. All of us together."
--Pramila Jayapal, U.S. Representative for Washington's 7th
District "Shout Your Abortion embodies everything that society so
desperately craves in this moment: compassion over cruelty, fact
over fiction, and storytelling over silence. The shared experience
of one in four women powerfully illustrated on these pages is
tangible evidence of our collective strength when we join hands and
speak our truth together."
--Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America About the
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