Laura Hooberman, Author at Public Seminar

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The Dishonest Images of the Anti-Abortion Movement

Anti-abortion activists don’t seem to care about what a fetus actually looks like

June 27, 2019 • by Laura Hooberman

The advertisement incorporates a number of visual and discursive strategies commonly deployed by abortion rights opponents. It relies, for instance, on oversimplified and misleading rhetoric as the vehicle for its messaging, a tactic identifiable across the spectrum of anti-abortion propaganda. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a fetus is incapable of feeling ...

Psychoanalysis and #MeToo

Reflecting on sexuality, power, desire, coercion, and consent

February 27, 2018 • by Laura Hooberman

On February 8, 2018, the New School for Social Research hosted a panel discussion, co-sponsored by The Sandor Ferenczi Center, the New School gender studies & sexuality program and Public Seminar, entitled “Sexual Harassment and Assault: Eros, Power, Violation and Consent.” The event, designed as the first part of a ...

Peddling Acquiescence as Unity

Exploring the complexity of empathic communication in the face of Trump

February 19, 2017 • by Laura Hooberman

Alongside the article’s publication, the Times’s political podcast The Run Up announced a three-episode series called “Dialogues” in which pairs of family and friends -- one Trump voter and one Clinton voter per episode -- would pose these questions to one another. Perhaps not unsurprisingly the dialogues, resting on necessarily ...