Issues for the week of June 30, 2022 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of June 30

Previous Weeks

After Roe

It’s Time for Democrats to Claim the Moral High Ground

Hannah Leffingwell

PhD candidate in history, Institute of French Studies at New York University

Fighting for Bodily Autonomy Is a Texas Tradition

Lauren Gutterman

Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

The Revolution Will Not Be Feminized

Cristina Ciordia, Venus Faddoul and Daniel Fermín

Gimme My Poppers Or Else

Samuel Te Kani

Critic and fiction author based in New Zealand

How Fetal Politics Stole Americans’ Reproductive Rights

Claire Potter and Jennifer Holland

Abortion Alone Is Not Justice

Laura Briggs

Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Continuous Protest outside the Supreme Court

Jo Freeman

Feminist scholar and political scientist