As our final post in celebration of this cluster, we extend our deepest gratitude to all of the contributors and especially for the amazing work of Tyler Tennant in production and artistry and Michael Dango in brilliant editorial. Many thanks @asap_journal! Read: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
“Taken together,” this cluster “suggest[s] that artistic representation can reveal what is often hidden. In the case of abortion—often illegal, shameful, known more through whisper networks than official archives—so much is concealed.” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
“What would our resistance look like if we thought more about aesthetics? What new kinds of resistance might emerge if aesthetics were central to our conceptualization of reproductive resistance?” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
"Beyoncé’s version of motherhood—one that draws from cultural history while responding to the present and looking toward the future—represents a version that is deeply needed during this time of great reproductive restriction..." Read: asapjournal.com/node/house-m... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
“There is, unfortunately, an unironic similarity to Happy the Elephant’s quest for freedom and the continued fight for bodily and reproductive autonomy of human beings..." Read: asapjournal.com/node/her-bel... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
“Those without access to power—to master discourse, whether because of race, gender, sexuality, economic status, nationality, religion, or other forms of identity that those with power seek to exclude—use code." Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
“It is hard to describe abortion as a form of sexual freedom. Writing of art and abortion in 2009, when abortion was still legal across the country, Jennifer Doyle expressed this difficulty with eloquence...” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
"The enduring presence of the image of the Virgin Mary in art about abortion illuminates a crisis in representation." Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
“Comstock’s network made regular headlines as they hounded those who aided and abetted bodily autonomy seekers. These laws limited discussions pertaining to bodily autonomy, which became tenuous at best and litigious at worst..." Read: asapjournal.com/node/aiding-... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
"...alongside Milton’s descriptors, led me to ask questions about the biological function of the human uterus. And in that process, I discovered striking similarities between Milton’s warring chaos and a uterus during pregnancy." Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
“In Ancient Rome, male doctors were summoned during childbirth only if labor proved difficult. Instead, it was midwives who played the literal and figurative role of a physical and emotional support in childbirth...” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
Paula Rego is often called a remarkable storyteller as her work is deeply ingrained with narrative—sometimes personal, entangled with family & childhood memories, individual politics, experiences, feelings & emotions” Read: asapjournal.com/node/embodim... @asapjournal.bsky.social @jmss3.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
“By staging the abortion as a crime scene scattered with the abortionist’s dubious tools & techniques, [the work] also functions as a grotesquely ruinous parody of the artist’s studio—& thus positions Kienholz as the abortionist.” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Delighted to have written a brief comment for this collection! Thx @leilaeasa.bsky.social and Jennifer Stager for putting it together and much else.
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...
“Sontag’s description of the fascist seduction as a process of “purification” that transformed “sexual energy into ‘spiritual force’ for the benefit of the community” aligns with the self-described pro-life movement in America.” Read here: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social
Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion.” asapjournal.com/cluster/from....
“But Munch’s selection of impression for the Armory show suggests that the work could also be topical, implicated and even intervening—or not—in debates over abortion, contraception, & women’s rights in Europe and the U.S." Read here: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social